Word: taint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...version of The Bacchae closes at the Agassiz Theatre, a grandiose production of the same play bursts onto the Loeb Main Stage. As the entire theater community, from performers to playgoers, watches with anticipation and some trepidation, one question still looms on everyone's mind: will the last production taint the response to this show, or will this one overshadow the memories of the last...
Still, in a country that has always prized tradition, there must be a lot of people like her. The British people--who, to put the case positively, have always been free of the taint of flightiness--are being asked to make a change in currency at a time when they've had only 27 years to absorb the previous change...
...survived much worse with the Iran-contra hearings grabbing the nation's attention only months before the New Hampshire primary. A senior Gore aide says this period will ultimately be remembered merely as "bumpy air." But if an independent counsel enters the picture, dragging out an investigation, the taint of scandal could endure for Gore right up to the 2000 primaries. Says an adviser to one of Gore's rivals: "The thought has occurred...
...even these exemplary cases suffer from the cloying taint of kitsch. Close Encounters reaches an anticlimax with its hackneyed vision of dainty space guys trooping out of the mother ship. Contact cannot explain its scientist-heroine's obsession without mawkish flashbacks to her childhood as an orphan; and when she finally meets the Vegans, they take the shape of long-lost Dad--to make it "easier" for her. Apparently our kind can handle only so much strangeness at a time: we travel for light-years, down through the raging chaos of cosmic wormholes, only to arrive...
...about the crime's impact. The act was hastily shoved through Congress in March in response to Matsch's refusal to allow anyone who attended the trial to testify during its criminal phase. Though a federal appeals court upheld Matsch?s view that seeing the defendants in court could taint a victim's testimony, Congress effectively overrode the court by allowing victims to watch the trial on a closed-circuit television in Oklahoma City, and then testify if they wished during the punishment phase. Seeking to avoid a lengthy court fight that would have delayed the start of McVeigh...