Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alexandra Stiglmayer in Sarajevo. Calabresi, our chief Central European correspondent, just took over the post from James L. Graff, who has moved to the Chicago bureau after three years of dangerous assignments in Bosnia. At times during his tour of duty, Graff drove through sniper fire in an unarmored "soft" car, and once he was held hostage overnight by mujahedin, foreign Islamic soldiers working with Bosnian Muslims. Says Graff: "The thing to do is make sure the risks you're undertaking are commensurate with the story you're getting. It's not a straightforward equation...
Though the cultural-pollution issue looks like an easy win for the Republicans, it's not a clean sweep. As the debate develops in weeks to come, the soft spots in their arguments are likely to become more apparent. For a party committed to free-market principles -- and which also wants to defund public television and end government oversight of the airwaves -- a problem is that pop culture represents the free market at its freest, meaning most able to make a profitable pitch to the grosser appetites. Some of the most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action...
...timing is open to question. On the day of the vote, with teary-eyed relatives of Oklahoma victims standing alongside, senators indulged in the sort of sentimental anti-terrorist rhetoric that is impossible to contradict and so ends up meaning nothing. No self-respecting legislator wants to be soft on terrorists...
...blacks, so they're against the death penalty. People will forget the old regime and want tougher laws for this exploding criminal class. Even though Mandela is against the death penalty, it may come back to haunt him in the 1997 elections if his party's seen as soft on crime...
...here they were on a fine October morning in Winterset, Iowa-cloudless sky, heatless sun, a soft breeze rustling leaves that had turned to perfectly photogenic reds and golds. Beresford was gone; Streep was present; Eastwood was directing as well as co-starring; the script was finally right and so was today's pretty location, through which an aged Francesca was supposed to wander distraught (she has just learned that her long-ago three-day lover has died). As Eastwood ambled over to discuss the day's first shot with his longtime cinematographer, Jack Green, he was heard to murmur...