Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate Finance Committee this afternoon approved the GOP tax cut proposal that Democrats claim Republicans would slash Medicare to pay for. On an 11-9 vote that split along party lines, the package would reduce taxes by $245 billion over the next seven years. The bill includes the $500-per-child tax credit featured prominently in the GOP's Contract With America, while it sharply reduces the Clinton Administration's earned-income tax credit. The bill now heads to the Senate floor as part of the larger Republican budget bill that seeks to eliminate the deficit...
They were united, briefly, in an anxious silence of the heart. As soon as the verdict was read, however, they split apart; they could watch themselves do it on the split screens. On one side jubilation, on the other dismay. Afterward it was said that America should have seen this coming, that the division of the races cut so deep, it ought to have been obvious that two nations had always been hiding...
...Simpson had no alibi, other than he was chipping golf balls in the dark. And there were tapes, pictures and police reports to show that Simpson had broken down Kardashian's door, smashed his windshield with a bat, threatened him with a gun and beaten him until his lip split open. How likely is it that juror Brenda Moran would have called looking at this evidence "a waste of time," or that Johnnie Cochran would have been able to wave it away as "domestic discord" and a sign that his client was "not perfect...
...schadenfreude of all. Alas, the once golden union of KENNETH BRANAGH and EMMA THOMPSON is now asunder. Just before photos of Thompson, 36, holding hands with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Greg Wise, 29, turned up in the tabs, the thinking gossip's Charles and Di announced the split themselves, blaming the long stretches they spend working apart...
Boyd Gaines' Robert similarly embodies a curious split. Is he living in the '70s or the '90s? The production uneasily straddles the two eras. These days Robert's dissatisfied juggling of the women he dates looks a little smug and patronizing. Evidently he doesn't realize he's suffering from Peter Pan syndrome--and a dozen other pop-psychological maladies illuminated on post-'70s talk shows. No wonder Company's director, Scott Ellis, so often has Gaines peering handsomely but dazedly into the spotlights. What's to become of him? He blinks with uncertainty--unlike his creator. After Company, Sondheim...