Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soft, clear evening of April 14, 1961 -- two days after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into his triumphal orbit and three days before the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion -- Kennedy tilted back on the hind legs of a leather chair in the Cabinet Room and, I believe, decided to send Americans to the moon. I watched it happen in one of those unusual episodes when Kennedy opened a window on the inner White House for an outsider. Maybe he understood that, as astronomer Michael Hart wrote, the moon landing would "be forever remembered as one of the greatest achievements...
...eyes while she mouthed "One grilled cheese sandwich, just for you." Sure, the ingredients weren't worth more than 20 cents, but the profits would be all be poured right into the gas tank of the rusting VW Bus behind her makeshift kitchen. You could hear it in her soft, "Thanks...
Julia Roberts is the oddest of star commodities in Hollywood: a Lamborghini that few people know how to drive. Her soft good looks, easy glamour and megawatt, kilo-tooth smile give her a box-office appeal unique among today's actresses. Yet filmmakers seem blind to these qualities. Roberts so often has to mope and so rarely gets to be her famous radiant self...
Clinton had promised he would never play this game. On election night 1992, the President-elect vowed from a televised stage in Little Rock, Arkansas, "to reform the political system, to reduce the influence of special interests." Last year he pledged to put an end to so-called soft money, the kind of funds he raised last week, which are unrestricted by campaign-finance laws. Rather than changing the way Washington operates, however, Clinton now works to keep the old machinery running smoothly. Headlining at Democratic fund raisers across the U.S., the President has helped bring in a record...
Clinton's defense is that he supports the campaign-finance reform bills stalled in Congress. The legislation would limit contributions from political- action committees and ban soft money, the currently unlimited contributions to political parties used for voter registration and party-boosting activities. But Clinton has been nearly silent on the issue this year, possibly because the Democrats face a major loss of congressional seats in the fall elections. In the meantime, Clinton says he won't "disarm unilaterally" while Republicans and other enemies are still out earning money the old- fashioned way. "There's no contradiction at all," said...