Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week both leaders had adopted that time-honored, sweet-and-sour strategy for knocking the other guy off: make nice on the ground; rain fire from the air. Forbes, who knows his political history, learned the tactic from Ronald Reagan, and thus has managed to appear sunny and sincere in his speeches while running a dark and at times deceitful media campaign. Surprisingly, it was Dole, the cautious veteran, who took a long time to split his personality. Dole's staffers actually toughened the rhetoric in the days following his brittle response to Clinton's State of the Union...
...goes, and now the Dole campaign is fighting free fall with only two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses. Dole's partisans knew they had a problem when the newspapers arrived, full of coffee-shop interviews and focus groups with voters who found Clinton cheery and Dole sour. An unusually cheerless Elizabeth Dole snapped to a TIME correspondent traveling with her in Keene, New Hampshire, "I sure didn't like what I just read.'' Polls in Iowa and New Hampshire showed the Republican front runner losing ground and Steve Forbes bounding into the No. 2 position. The mood...
...putting so many facets of his young boss into Kane--the inhuman vigor, the using of others, the sled he loved as a boy--Mank effectively wrote Welles' autobiography for him in screenplay form. There was a lot of the sour old writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since...
After 10 women on the council met to discuss gender issues in the fall of 1993, then council vice-chair David L. Hanselman Jr. '94 criticized their meeting as "sour grapes" and urged the women to "devote less time [to] whining and more time [to] working on constructive council business...
...arrested by Mexican authorities Sunday after a lengthy manhunt, and was turned over the next day to U.S. officials. Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez reports: "From the perspective of the U.S., Abrego's arrest and deportation is very positive. Relations between the two countries had begun to sour recently amid speculation about government corruption and complicity in the drug trade. Abrego's capture shows the U.S. that the Mexican government is finally getting serious about cracking down on the drug trafficking in the country. It's playing rather differently here in Mexico, where many people think that this...