Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soft-spoken author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women told an overflow audience of 500 that the popular media and reactionary politicians have launched an "insidious attack" on women's rights...
...Soft-Boiler...
...elderly, retired lawyer named Reuben Frost, who keeps getting into other people's trouble. In this seventh outing in the series, A VERY VENETIAN MURDER (Simon & Schuster; $19), Frost and his wife Cynthia are taking their ease in Venice when someone murders an American dress designer. The soft-boiled detective is 77, and when danger threatens, he takes a nap. Or nibbles a nine-star lunch with Cynthia. But in the end he nails the villain briskly, well in time for antipasto...
...Even soft-core pornography links sexuality with children and with violence, Dines said. In addition, murder, abortions and rapes are marketed as porn films...
...pattern emerged. When the cold war turned hot and Americans who had been sent abroad to fight communism came home in coffins, challengers assailed the President from the left, accusing him of bellicosity and offering themselves as champions of the soft option. At other times, when Americans were not directly involved in a shooting war but were worried about the Red menace, the most potent political attacks on the man in the White House usually came from the right; he was faulted for being too accommodating or insufficiently vigilant or both...