Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply three pissedoff alcoholics, one of whom is consumptive, trying to hide their thoughts and emotions from the aged drug-addicted mother-figure. The tension exists but, since this it never remits, its effect on the audience is lost through the resulting absence of transition and change. Apologies become stiff and insincere and there is no room for noticeable reaction to events within the plot...
...running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though a bit stiff and repetitious -- it would be hard to count how many times he accused the White House of practicing "trickle-down economics" -- had a sharp answer for everything; he came off, at worst, even. Quayle may no longer be a drag on the ticket, but he could not carry...
...ancillary problem. "The focus was on disease. Pain was merely a marker of disease," says Dr. Kathleen M. Foley, pain-service chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. To some degree, this attitude simply reflected the bias of a culture that prizes the stiff upper lip: no pain, no gain...
...part, Gore was long criticized for being stiff-necked and arrogant, a policy wonk without humility or a sense of proportion. His brief and unsuccessful run for President in 1988 was seen by some as an example of overweening ambition. Gore's recent book, Earth in the Balance, an environmentalist manifesto and call to arms that includes the idea of banishing the internal-combustion engine "in, say, 25 years," has been blasted by Republicans as elitist nonsense. Quayle told a group of produce farmers in Fresno, California, last week that "with Clinton and Gore, you can say goodbye to water...
...rule of thumb, says Bell Labs' Penzias, technology will provide for people of the future what only the wealthiest can buy today. Where the rich now hire chauffeurs to drive them to work, for example, the working stiff of the future will be transported to work in his robocar. None of these advances are without their costs and risks. Drexler's assemblers, for example, could create bounties of goods and services -- or they could unleash artificial pests of unimaginable destructiveness. One nightmare creature from Drexler's book: an omnivorous bacteria-size robot that spreads like blowing pollen, replicates swiftly...