Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female vocalist who yowls, "When I read a book, I always read Balzac!/ When I take a drug, I always take Prozac!" Mercifully, an emcee named Jane Doe finally seizes the mike and asks, to the delight of the assembled digerati, "Just who the hell is Phiber Optik? A soft drink...
Phiber Optik, 23, is decidedly not a soft drink -- and probably not a sex aid. According to his supporters, who gathered last week to celebrate his release from prison, he's the first underground hero of the Information Age, the Robin Hood of cyberspace. Arrested two years ago in a federal crackdown on computer break-ins, he became a cause celebre among the Net intelligentsia: a master hacker jailed not only for what he did but also for what he knew...
...this: Just on pungent personality, the right-wingers are usually more entertaining hosts than the drones of radio liberalism, who share flaws with their elected counterparts. Decades of power made Democrats soft, logy, too eager to compromise; they showed compassion but rarely passion. By the time Limbaugh went national in 1988, the Dems could do little but sleepwalk into the propeller. How could they know that the winning attitude of the '90s -- on radio and on the stump -- would be to show a killer instinct...
...Administration's political headache is made worse by the specter of increased illegal immigration. Although soft-pedaling the issue, Clinton officials are deeply worried that the drop in income for Mexican workers could seduce thousands to cross the border. Even if an influx does not materialize, the possibility is raising hackles in California and Texas, regions increasingly intolerant of illegal immigration, but crucial to Clinton's re- election hopes...
...Leader of the Revolution gone soft? Don't count on it. In the midst of passing overdue congressional reforms, for which Gingrich deserves great credit, the Republicans approved a bill requiring a three-fifths vote to raise income taxes. A great idea -- if you're rich. The change applies only to the most progressive form of taxation, the one that forces the well-off to pay more than others. All the government's other revenue raisers -- from national- park admission fees to gas and cigarette taxes -- can still be hiked by majority vote. Those levies, which will probably rise...