Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Feminists are] suspected of having a perspective, a biased worldview as against a scholarly standard of objectivity," she adds...
...pity party--indeed, probably would have created the plot expressly to condemn the previous generation for messing up the world, etc., etc. But Moody makes no moral judgments on the sad state of affairs in Connecticut that has hemmed Hex and Billie and Billie's husband Lou Sloane into standard suburban lives; instead, he analyzes and describes and unravels character and action and landscape in scintillating prose. He is a young author who chooses to write about rather sordid, dull aspects of modern life, to be sure, but he follows an old, old tradition of writing wellcrafted, intelligent novels with...
...believe trees can talk." Butterfly's redwood tree is a valuable hostage; if it were sawed into boards for luxury-home paneling or outdoor decks, it would be worth a six-figure sum. And trees like that translate into jobs for loggers. When the Eureka Times-Standard, the local paper, printed stories about Butterfly last month, it was showered with complaints. "We write about rapists, but it doesn't mean we support them," huffed editor David Little in a column defending his news judgment. "Lighten up, folks. A woman is living in a tree. Isn't that the least...
...instead of lectures by Newt Gingrich. It's spring, and Washington is crowded with hordes of high schoolers posing on the steps of the Capitol with their Representatives. It's just a picture bite. Few nonpayers get to see their Congressman. Just last month, when a stricter drunken-driving standard was up for a vote, Mothers Against Drunk Driving couldn't get in to see key members, who they were told were "in conference or on the floor." But the door was open for the lobbyists for liquor and restaurants, who have donated $25 million. The standard died in committee...
...provision attached to it that would ban federal funding of family-planning organizations abroad that condone abortion as an option. But the most obvious nod to religious conservatives in the Senate involves the blockage of Clinton's nomination of James Hormel to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Hormel is standard ambassadorial material--a businessman, a philanthropist, a former law school dean and, of course, a big-money donor to the Democratic Party. Under ordinary circumstances, Hormel's nomination would have sailed through the Senate with little notice. But Hormel, 65, is gay and a prominent advocate of gay rights...