Word: veer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next time someone calls a football player a dumb jock, ask him what a 35 Veer Right is. Then tell an offensive lineman what he just said...
However, a senior Clinton aide says of the President, "He gets it now. He knows what people want. After the election, he is not going to suddenly veer left and start proposing big Old Democrat solutions. Joycelyn Elders is not coming back, O.K.? No Lani Guinier." Moreover, given a continuing effort to balance the budget and the certainty that Republicans will retain a powerful voice in Congress--possibly still a majority--there will be neither money nor votes for any grandiose schemes...
DIED. VIVECA LINDFORS, 74, actress; of complications from rheumatoid arthritis; in Uppsala, Sweden. Lindfors' neo-Garbo good looks graced a series of forgettable films before her 1954 breakthrough with a psychologically nuanced performance in the title role of Anastasia on Broadway. Lindfors' subsequent career continued to veer between high art onstage (Shakespeare, Brecht) and low on film (1973's The Way We Were and last year's Stargate...
...grace. Occasional joyousness is real but fragmented. The narrator of the title story is a washed-up doc, fired from his African aid mission and back home in the U.S., who is taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right, and in the meantime what can be better than a cool, breezy, fragrant day, rain-splatter diamonds on the wraparound windshield of a Ninety-eight Olds with a view of cherry trees blooming in the light spring rain...
...daringly Roseanne's version will veer from Cybill, or another failed AbFab knockoff called High Society, remains to be seen. Even if the wry, raunchy cocktail is watered down, the original Edina and Patsy will still be lurking somewhere in the cable universe, with plenty of fans to toast them...