Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the Main Street that guides customers into Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...
...allusion to Murphy Brown, Dole hardly got 24 hours before he had to backtrack, admitting that perhaps the movie was too violent for children under 13 or 14, after which attention faded. We may finally be entering a period when flogging values issues creates less and less of a stir. Yes, people are disgusted with vulgar entertainment and its impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things it can do. While the religious right was busy with prayer in classrooms, enforced motherhood...
...elections," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "They are scared that they'd lose their jobs and power if Yeltsin lost the presidency. Korzhakov and company were probably trying to dirty Chubais and the election campaign in Yeltsin's eyes, but they went too far. After the arrests caused a stir, both Alexander Lebed (Yeltsin's new national security advisor) and Chubais overwhelmingly convinced Yeltsin that he would lose face if he kept Korzhakov's group on." -->