Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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APPARENTLY, THOUGH, the old maxim still holds: a strong man is a leader, a strong woman is a bitch. Remember how relieved people were when "domineering" Nancy Reagan left the White House and soft, grandmotherly Barbara Bush moved in? We should have been grateful that though we were deluded enough to elect a president who thought trees caused pollution, we still had someone in the White House who had a brain and wasn't afraid...
Crowds waited in endless lines at refreshment stands, only to find that soft pretzels and ice cream bars had been sold...
...sexually harassing their female colleagues. Then the men are "boys being boys." And the women? Those who deflect sexual advances risk being labeled by some men as lesbians, a threat that can cost a woman her military career. Those who dare to complain are often branded as "too soft." Such is the backdrop against which women in the armed forces must determine whether it is worth registering a complaint when a male colleague steps out of line. Although a 1990 Pentagon study found that fully two-thirds of U.S. servicewomen have been sexually harassed by male military personnel, few file...
...media, he realized that the proliferation of outlets has created a new game: a way to reach the American people directly, without the mediation of Dan Rather and the New York Times. The Perot campaign owed much of its amazing start to its call-in, soft-news-show launch, which allowed it to get its message out unfiltered...
...resemble its predecessors. A review of political commercials since they began 40 years ago (currently on display at New York City's American Museum of the Moving Image) is instantly familiar. The themes and techniques are timeless. Sophistication varies, but the efforts of all the candidates routinely combine soft biography and positive ads with a whole lot more of the other kind -- the attack spots designed to skewer an opponent...