Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone bravely, touchingly, builds his or her none-too- sturdy defenses. Mack, in fact, turns into a benign busybody, trying to pat almost all the lives that touch his into shape. His work comes out a little too neatly, but Kline's performance, like all the others, is engagingly soft- spoken. And well spoken. The screenplay -- by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan -- has a nice, unforced wit, and Lawrence Kasdan's direction has its jagged edges. If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best qualities -- generosity...
...heard many terms: union, confederation, commonwealth. You talk about a "soft" union. What do you mean...
...proposed monorail but ended in the gutter. After voters ousted incumbent Kathy Whitmire in last month's primary, the runoff between developer Bob Lanier, 66, and state legislator Sylvester Turner, 37, turned squalid. Lanier ads portrayed Turner, trying to become the city's first black mayor, as soft on crime and entangled in insurance fraud...
...actors wandering about a ritzy night spot in the latest TV commercial for Diet Coke are three with a very unusual item on their resumes: they're dead. Their faces are immediately recognizable. But just how Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong and James Cagney were resurrected to shill for a soft drink with living songman Elton John is the story of "Nightclub" -- 60 seconds of inspired flackery that since its first airing two days before Thanksgiving, has become one of the most talked-about TV commercials of the year...
Smith's lawyer, Roy Black, and some legal experts assert that Bludworth's motive was to avoid seeming soft on the Kennedy family. But there was more to it than that. During their eight-month investigation, the prosecutors became convinced that the woman was telling the truth about Smith, then a medical student at Georgetown University. Their problem was proving that in court...