Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amok"--literally, "to go berserk" in the Malay tongue that is spoken across Indonesia--is precisely what the outside world has feared for Jakarta ever since it was hit by a currency crisis late last year that the aging President Suharto, 76, seemed unable to understand or to control. Suharto, in power for 32 years, refused to implement key economic reforms that could damage the private business interests of his family members and close friends, even as food prices spiraled. The fatal shooting of six students by police in the capital last Tuesday sparked riots and looting. "Indonesia needs...
...CARTER, creator of The X-Files, is going the extra light-year to make sure the future is filled with conventions where people in Scully and Mulder masks beg former extras on the show for autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company; on the TV show...
...headlining also lead to complaints of mischaracterization. Most recently, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz pointed out that a story in which he denied representing Radovan Karadzic ran with the headline "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." The story also omitted Dershowitz's caveat that he had not spoken with Karadzic in a year. As a result, the "entire thrust of the story was wrong," complained Dershowitz...
Around the U.S., labor and Democrats are taking Prop. 226 very seriously. Bill Clinton has spoken against it. Party leaders are worried that labor's focus on 226 is claiming money that would otherwise go to Democrats in this year's midterm congressional elections. The AFL-CIO has pledged to raise $13 million to fight the initiative. That's nearly half the $28 million it plans to spend on the entire midterm campaign this fall. But if 226 succeeds, the unions may have a lot less to spend in the future...
...apparently included these facts in the story and proposed the headline, "Dershowitz Denies Representing Karadzic" But the story did not end up appearing that way. It ended up with the following headline: "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." Nor did it include the important fact that I had not spoken to Karadzic for over a year...