Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City a set mostly of frets and flourishes. Even the perkiest number, the irresistibly Beatleesque Round of Blues, hedges its best hopes ("I see lights in a fat city/ I feel love again") by wondering if this buoyancy heralds "a new breakthrough" or "an old breakdown." And in the soft, scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine." She swells into Faustian rage...
...strike many as at least a reasonable facsimile of paradise. Singapore, long an object of curiosity for its unique blend of open economics, authoritarian politics and social engineering, is attracting attention as a model modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore (pop. 3.1 million) has even found an ardent fan in mainland China (pop. 1.16 billion), where officials are studying the city-state for ideas on how they...
...anything but fairness when the president indicates that his friends are not accountable under the law. Bush's pardons were perhaps his final presidential act of elitism. After using Willie Horton to depict Michael Dukakis as soft on crime four years ago, Bush has released his buddies on a permanent furlough...
...these victories are not the end of the Balkan horror story--just the close of another bloody chapter, with the worst still to come. If settlements are soft on Serbia, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic could cause a European crisis that will dwarf the current one, and put millions more lives at risk...
...trend, a reflection of the nation's prohealth, proenvironment leanings, has also invaded the $48 billion soft-drink market. Coca-Cola has the latest entry: Tab Clear, a colorless, calorie-free version of its 29-year-old diet drink. Coke says it's being positioned as a "mainstream cola," though it will have to swim against Crystal Pepsi, a low-sodium, no-preservative version of the industry's second-best-selling soft drink, as well as a pack that includes 30 other transparent rivals, such as 7-Up, Sprite and, for the real back-to-basics crowd, water...