Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph Nye go ballistic when students parrot his ideas about "hard and soft power," "the realist paradigm" or "the myth of decline" in their papers? I doubt it. I'll bet he's glad they were paying attention. Does Voltaire spin in his grave every time a Crimson editorial follows his "I do not agree with what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it" reasoning? I don't think Voltaire reads The Crimson. I'd bet even the poet who penned the camel ode would be willing...
Ladling out the largesse might once have been acceptable to studio heads, but the palmy days are past. In the current movie climate, when budgets have soared and revenues are soft, moguls get to wondering if stars are worth the worry. This summer's box-office take is down 10% from the same period last year, which was down 8.8% from the summer of 1989. Viewers are seeing more movies, but increasingly, they watch them at home. "Video is becoming a substitute for film going," says Pollock, who notes that studios receive about 50% of the box-office take...
There is a long list of golfers who have risen from obscurity to win major contests only to return to a comfortable and lucrative mediocrity. Crooked Stick, with its long fairways and soft greens, may have been the perfect course for Daly. The question remains as to how he will fare on narrower, firmer fairways where power can make a bad situation disastrous. Can he, in short, become a superstar...
...long-ball contests. But the burly, unassuming 25-year-old with the swing-for- the-fences style is something more: a genuine athletic phenomenon. The man who stunned the best golfers in the world during the P.G.A. Championship at Crooked Stick combined impossibly long tee shots with soft irons, and dead-on putts that left no openings for his rivals. During the final four holes, a stretch when even veteran players get the willies and lose major tournaments, Daly dealt with his mounting nervousness by playing harder. On the final hole of the tournament, he says, he took his biggest...
...maybe not possible for Tyson, who, at 5 ft. 11 in., is the shortest champ since Rocky Marciano, and one whose soft tenor voice has given employment to many derisive impressionists. How tough did this lisping lad with the fire-hydrant physique have to be? In Tyson's mind, and the popular imagination, plenty tough. From the start. His teen years, which took him from juvenile prison into the gym of ring wizard Cus D'Amato, made for great copy but little emotional stability. Twenty-eight fights and 26 knockouts later, Tyson was the youngest ever heavyweight champion -- a credit...