Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female doctor and her lover, a would-be inventor of nouvelle kosher cuisine, cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." The matron's husband, and surrogate father to her son, is the ex-husband's ex-psychiatrist. The shrink and the boy do a vaudeville-inspired soft-shoe number called Everyone Hates His Parents. The mother probably speaks for a whole generation or two when she describes her occupation in life as "holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting...
...real issue is not so much the dollar amount as the nature of the Japanese contribution. So far it's all treasure and no blood, all soft power and no hard. Left to its own instincts, Japan's sole instrument of security policy would be its checkbook. That isn't good enough in a world menaced by the likes of Saddam Hussein. The burden to be shared in the gulf is not just financial cost; it is also mortal risk. If U.S., Saudi, Egyptian, British and other soldiers die in the desert, Japan's billions will have bought more resentment...
...heed. In the woodsy main dining room of Musso & Frank's, Hollywood's oldest eatery, the 44-year-old multimedia auteur concentrates on ordering his usual lunch: "A Swiss cheese, real Swiss cheese, on whole wheat. A side order of steamed broccoli. And a Coke." In his soft tenor voice, he discusses nutrition: "Do you like it when your sandwich is burned like that? That's not supposed to be good for you. But it sure tastes good, though." He chats with the waiter: "Does this bread get thrown away? It could go to the homeless. They'd only have...
...have always come in through the back door rather than the front," Brooks reflects in his soft Oklahoma accent. "It always seems like I am standing outside of me, watching the whole thing go down, whatever I am doing." From that vantage point, Brooks would have caught a good show starring both his main competition and himself...
...interesting analogy," says a Bush Administration official. "Like Galtieri, Saddam seems to think we are too soft to fight unless he invades Saudi Arabia. He figures we'll eventually tire of sitting in the desert and his occupation of Kuwait will become just another of the world's sore spots that remain unresolved for decades. He's wrong -- but fewer and fewer of us believe he will learn that lesson short...