Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, it seemed as if history was about to repeat itself. As the House prepared to take up the President's 1994 budget, Clinton once more faced a mini-revolt by a group of 40 moderate Democrats, led by Congressman Charles Stenholm of Texas, who demanded a stiff cap on entitlement spending to keep the deficit under control. Liberals, led by members of the black and Hispanic caucuses, promised to bolt if Clinton gave the moderates an inch. Round-the- clock talks between the two camps were helping Clinton maintain a shaky majority in the House...
...things are more or less clear: the year is 2007, and Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi, stiff-backed and hollow-cheeked) is a patent attorney living comfortably in Los Angeles with his wife (Dana Delany) and two kids. His life starts taking strange turns when an ex-girlfriend (Kim Cattrall) seeks his help in locating her missing son. The mission turns out to be a ruse to lead Harry to Senator Tony Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) -- presidential aspirant, television entrepreneur and guru of a political-religious movement known as New Realism. Kreutzer's neofascist aspirations have something to do with hallucinogenic drugs...
...took some draconian legislation to get the wheels rolling. A California law with a distinctly puritanical streak mandates that by 1998 2% of each manufacturer's new cars sold in the state must be emission-free or stiff fines and penalties will be levied against the makers. Those standards match only one known product in the world market: the electric car. And they are just the beginning. Within another five years, the state's Clean Air Act will require that fully 10% of all new vehicles must comply -- a minimum of some 200,000 cars a year. Says Bill Sessa...
...space. The court jester, performed by Daniel Meja, captivated the audience with his surprising and sly movement, expressing through dance a complex wit. Lastly, Prince Charming, performed by Lazlo Berdo, penetrated the space with his deep chaussees and powerful tour jetes. Despite his technical expertise, his movements felt princely stiff, counterbalancing Cinderella's fairy-tale flatness. While this combination leaves the first pas de deux lacking, the tenderness and grace of two lovers discovering and recovering each other comes through in the subtle passion of the movement by the second pas de deux...
...investigation for fraud. Even so, Hoffenberg had initially seemed an acceptable owner to most of the future Post mutineers. Hoffenberg hired as his editor Pete Hamill, the open-necktie Post alumnus whom he paid $500,000 a year to reprise his long-running I'm-just-a-working-class-stiff...