Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rougher days are ahead. The contract will be harder to pass in the Senate, where most of its provisions face Democratic filibusters. That strain could tear the lobbyists apart. The fealty of the Christian Coalition will be sorely tested, for example, if the Senate, as expected, pares the group's most cherished proposal: a new $500-a-child tax credit. The Home Builders would also revolt if Senator Bob Packwood, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, makes good on his threat to place new limits on the mortgage-interest deduction...
Telling his story in three movements (Words, Faces and Pictures), Manchevski deliberately blurs group identities. You have to strain to understand what ideals the people in this film are willing to die for (and, more to the point, kill for). One's idea of God as opposed to another's? The heritage of one's blood as opposed to that of someone else's? As we lean in to catch their garbled, often hysterical self-justifications, we also catch a larger point--that none of these principles is worth a single human life...
...White House crisis-oh, and a pretty blond child set up for a big bad monkey bite-aren't enough for one doomsday movie; the military has to go bats as well. We can only surmise that back in 1986, when he produced Platoon, Kopelson contracted a deadly strain of the con-spiracy virus from Oliver Stone...
...after week, the Republican revolution proceeded apace. Bill after bill barreled through the House of Representatives. The Republicans won easily. The most important votes weren't even close. Outside the House chamber, however, the picture was very different. Last week House Republicans were showing their first real signs of strain since their euphoric takeover in January. The media were filled with images of the President sharing tacos and corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb the growth of the school-lunch...
...hold of yourself,' I thought. Surely the strain of rushing frantically through a city where I consistently fail to understand the announcements made over loudspeakers and the questions of taxi drivers had driven me to a state of schizoPresley psychosis...