Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Taking on the Kennedys (PBS) This documentary about the 1994 congressional race between young Patrick Kennedy and Kevin Vigilante, an accomplished physician, has all the populist wit of a Michael Moore piece without the contrivances. We learn that Vigilante didn't stand a chance against an opponent who wooed voters with the musk of Camelot...
...Best Actress in a Musical was the only one received by Victor/Victoria, Andrews, then 60, announced at a Wednesday matinee that she would decline the nomination. "I have searched my conscience and my heart," said the actress, "and find that sadly I cannot accept this nomination and prefer to stand instead with the egregiously overlooked." Her sincerity would have played out a little better if somebody hadn't tipped off the TV news crews, who came rushing into the theater 30 minutes before the curtain...
Every day, Americans are belting out more of these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases, usually of the in-your-face (to use another) variety. Conversations, movies, E-mail, ads, lovers' quarrels, punditry and stand-up comedy can barely be conducted without resort to an annoyingly popular riposte. A random gleaning, from just one Cybill episode on CBS, produced: Hel-lo-oh!; Oh, pulleeze; Get a life; Yadda yadda; Yesss! and Haven't we had enough...
...means toward making such an art came in part, as it must, from a sense of continuity with both past and present. Beckmann's paintings draw, for instance, on German Gothic woodcarvings, in which the task of scooping space from a thin panel causes the figures to stand stiffly as though in fright. Equally, his work was influenced by Matisse, whose daring, expressive color and use of black translate, in Beckmann, into a stylistic effect similar to stained glass, with burning patches of green or flesh color emphasized by a webwork of heavy black outlines...
...press is also shocked that Mochtar's son James Riady, during a number of Oval Office visits, described by the White House as basically social, praised Clinton's stand on China and urged him to visit President Suharto of Indonesia (as did others and he did). Most social encounters in Washington are part backslap and part business, and these had more of the former than the latter. But because reporters are trying to compensate for charges that they favor Democrats, they are more willing to buy the G.O.P. line that foreign-policy decisions are as open to influence as domestic...