Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the memories, indeed, were checkered, and soft-focus moments were framed by harder edges. The public memory recalls Linford Christie bursting past in the 100 m, arms upraised in triumph; the private one shows Mark Witherspoon, a medal hopeful in the same event, thunder down the track for 30 meters, then suddenly collapse into a sickening heap, his tendon ruptured. On the scoreboard, the finish was played and replayed while Witherspoon lay alone, helpless on the track...
...similarity of the two candidates' positions may be Bush's biggest problem. Republicans have had a lock on foreign policy ever since McGovern and Vietnam swung the Democrats sharply to the left. Voters consistently found them too soft to trust with the nation's security. But Clinton is attempting to erase that stigma by aligning himself closely to the middle. Both he and Bush are internationalists, both are willing to use force if necessary, neither is an ideologue. Their differences on specific issues tend to be in degree rather than in kind: a matter of a few dollars more...
When the revolution erupted in 1917, Nicholas reacted with bizarre passivity. He abdicated and went quietly into exile in Tobolsk, relieved to have exchanged his gilded prison for a more tranquil confinement. But this soft-spoken autocrat, whose exquisite manners and flickering will had once led a courtier to describe him as "nodding tirelessly in opposite directions," was no match for the hard men of Bolshevism. Their fledgling regime, already embroiled in intramural disputes, was threatened by enemies on all sides, and they saw the Romanovs as both a potential threat and a trump card. From the relative comfort...
...played a major role in electing Presidents since the founding of the Republic. In the 20th century, few candidates have made it to the White House without strong Southern support. The news from Madison Square Garden last week, as Clinton and Gore delivered their acceptance speeches in the soft, rolling accents of the South, was that the Democrats were back on their old flame's front porch, roses in hand, hoping to rekindle the spark of passion in her fickle heart...
Visa has forked over $20 million to Olympic organizers to make its charge plate the Games' official credit card, while Coca-Cola has plunked down $33 million to become the official soft drink. Challengers, who pay no entry fee to play, attempt to disrupt the exclusive promotional campaigns with disguised Olympic tie-in ads of their own. American Express denies that it is playing ambush. Instead its clever effort, unveiled last week, is billed as "corrective advertising," aimed at misperceptions fostered by Visa advertising that the American Express card is not accepted in Barcelona. "The Olympics don't take American...