Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor of Texas, George W. Bush has been adamant on the subject of drugs: Stay away from them; expect to go to jail if you're caught with them; and don't ask me whether I ever used them. While every other Republican candidate denied ever taking illegal drugs, Bush continued to hold to his line: "I've made mistakes in the past, and I've learned from my mistakes." Period. It was time, he said, for someone to put an end to the politics of personal destruction, and in the context of the past year, when America completed...
Investing by yourself has its disadvantages. It is a solitary experience involving a subject--the market--that can be bizarre and irrational at times. Yet judging from the swollen ranks of practitioners, many people genuinely like it. They treat the stock market like a giant store, picking out their favorite merchandise, the Intels and the Ciscos, and buying when the market throws a periodic sale. They use weakness--the dips--to buy, and this has been the single best investment strategy for a decade...
...generated buzz--including plugs from Rosie O'Donnell and parodies on Saturday Night Live--it caught the attention of hotter, hipper acts. After Madonna agreed to be a BTM subject last season, says executive producer Gay Rosenthal, "the perception really changed from that of a series about has-beens to one for current artists." Recent subjects have included Melissa Etheridge, Lenny Kravitz, Cher and the Red Hot Chili Peppers...
...narrated by a nameless young woman who is killing time and brain cells by working as a receptionist at the stuffy Academy of Material Science in London. Pouring her heart out in a novel-cum-diary, she is attempting to figure out a tumultuous love affair. But while this subject has been handled much better by more sophisticated writers, the author really comes alive in her sharp descriptions of the deadly pettiness of office life: who sits with whom in the company cafeteria; what the people who answer the phones really think; and how a drone can actually blossom into...
...product is a devoted but ultimately dull hagiopic. Berry is vivacious and hungry as Dandridge, and Brent Spiner is affecting as her dedicated manager; but a flat script and uninteresting narrative (rendered in flashback as Berry flips through a scrapbook) throw ice water on the heat its subject is supposed to project...