Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cranes do not list the lyrics to their new album Wings of Joy. Perhaps lyricist Alison Shaw does not wish to make her personal thoughts known to the listener, which would also explain the virtual incomprehensibility of her soft, high vocals. Or maybe she really isn't saying anything after...
...that debate has caused considerable political fallout. In 1976, a Georgia governor named Jimmy Carter, a virtual unknown in New Hampshire, opposed the plant and gained enough votes from liberal anti-nuclear voters to win the primary by a narrow margin. In 1980, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) boosted his ultimately unsuccessful campaign by stealing the issue back from the incumbent president...
...brought the retreat and virtual disappearance of the American left as a political, as distinct from a cultural, force. It went back into the monastery -- that is, to academe -- and also extruded out into the art world, where it remains even more marginal and impotent. Meanwhile, a considerable and very well-subsidized industry arose, hunting the lefty academic or artist in his or her retreat. Republican attack politics turned on culture, and suddenly both academe and the arts were full of potential Willie Hortons. The lowbrow form of this was the ire of figures like Senator Helms...
Brown does not spare his party. On the stage of the Democratic National Committee meeting in Los Angeles last fall, he accused party chairman Ron Brown of having conspired with his Republican counterpart, the late Lee Atwater, to ramrod a congressional pay raise through the House of Representatives in virtual secrecy. Ron Brown, sitting a few feet away, winced. On the road, Jerry Brown's message is a hit with student audiences but draws mixed responses from older crowds who listen, but with some skepticism. The message keeps running afoul of the messenger's past reputation...
Even if Kalugin's account, like so many tantalizing tales before it, leads to a dead end, it has given new life to the MIA industry. Wild claims about the fate of the POWs flourish because of the virtual impossibility of determining what happened to every single American who disappeared in Vietnam. After previous conflicts, the U.S. learned to live with similar uncertainties: the graves of the unknown soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery are monuments to the tens of thousands of fighting men left unaccounted for after World Wars I and II and the Korean War. Yet perhaps because...