Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first question to arise is always, When do we get out? Luigi Barzini once observed that for America interventionism is often just an expression of "impatient isolationism," wanting to get the job over with and back to, "in the words of Theodore Roosevelt (who deplored it vigorously), 'the soft and easy enjoyment of material comforts...
...achievement among his series was the Grainstacks of 1890-91. Monet painted at least 25 of them, and they seem almost polemical because their subject looks so odd and raw. What are these things? Anonymous structures of oats and wheat, circular, with conical tops. They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking...
Pierce's 25-point lead in the polls, analysts say could well evaporate as the campaign goes on. According to the Globe's poll, 30 percent of voters are undecided and 58 percent of Pierce supporters might change their minds by the fall. "It's very soft support," said Gerry Chervinsky, head of KRC Communications Research, the firm conducting the poll...
Coca-Cola has always been the world's most popular soda. But in 1985 its Atlanta-based makers decided to replace it with New Coke, a sweeter concoction designed to challenge perennial opponent Pepsi. New Coke became the marketing fiasco of the decade. Within three months, soft-drink sippers loyal to the old formula forced its return; it reappeared as Coca-Cola Classic. Since then New Coke's market share has shriveled. Last week, in an effort to resuscitate the comatose cola, the company announced plans to test market New Coke under a new name: Coke...
...tend to personify evil, he explains, "because we see it in people." But for sophisticates acquainted with sociology and other disciplines, says McBrien, "sin is now seen as something systemic, institutional and structural, as well as personal." Laments William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist: "The devil has been soft-pedaled and de- emphasized by the church." Absent the notion of a personal devil, of course, exorcism becomes an obsolete, in fact meaningless, exercise...