Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because of the "48 hour rule" in New York City, the police officers involved had two days to confer with a police union labor lawyer, before making a comment to the public. Predictably, they offered a terse statement, saying they believed Diallo was a rape suspect who had been reaching...
...then stopped myself, saying with some surprise, "I'm not worried. All will work out. God will provide me with something useful to do that will make me happy, too!" I'm not sure whether the understandable surprise that registered on his face was due to the Pollyannaish statement I had just uttered or merely a mirror of my own surprise...
...speculation grew so fervid that the First Lady on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that--gasp!--she was thinking about it: "I will give careful thought to a potential candidacy in order to reach a decision later this year." Released shortly before 6 p.m., perfectly timed to be read by the network news anchors, the statement revved the Washington-New York gossip machine. By Friday, when Hillary met for a private lunch with Moynihan, and Clinton again signaled his support during a press conference with French President Jacques Chirac, political hacks were salivating at the prospect of a celebrity death...
...before a throng of supporters in Buffalo, N.Y. In a neat reversal of their usual roles, Hillary kept Clinton waiting 15 minutes while she worked a rabid rope line. The next time Rangel and Hillary spoke, it was she who made the call. Last Tuesday, before she released her statement of noncommitment, she phoned Rangel again. "Thank you for all you've done," Rangel says she told him. "I am very, very serious about this...
Shalit won't confirm the virgin part, saying only that she's "inexperienced." And that's exactly the problem with the book: for every statement that seems knowing, there are three that seem naive or exaggerated. Shalit attacks Prozac and the Pill as antithetical to female nature and argues that sexual harassment is better addressed by courtly standards than by legislation. Say what? She wields Kant and Kierkegaard in defending the past; for modern times, however, her shaky authorities tend to be women's magazines. And though she properly skewers those who ridicule women who say no, her modesty...