Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women were cast as outsiders, better, purerand more virtuous candidates. They got votes whenchange and outsiders were attractive to voters,"Goodman said...
...Prohibition-style measure that would basically make average-income car owners suffer for having bought gas-using cars (even though there was no other kind of car for them to buy). Gas, like liquor and cigarettes, would be taxed like a sinful indulgence, allowing government policy-makers to look virtuous and hard-line on environment protection--on the people's backs...
Another of the few fast tracks on Automatic, "Ignoreland," lambastes the Republicans for "Wrecking all things virtuous and true" in the past 12 years. In a slightly distorted vocal that struggles behind layers of instrumentation, Stipe admits that his lyrics are "vitriol," but feels "better having screamed" about the GOP menace...
Another of the few fast tracks on Automatic, "Ignoreland," lambastes the Republicans for "wrecking all things virtuous and true" in the past 12 years. In a slightly distorted vocal that struggles behind layers of instrumentation, Stipe admits that his lyrics are "vitriol," but feels "better having screamed" about the GOP menace...
...Kissinger really asking us to believe that all presidents are inherently honest and virtuous? Is he really dumbfounded that we dare ask a president to account for his actions? Where Kissinger's question--and we've heard it before--could once divide a nation, now it only creates uneasy silence. His arrogant ranting is bizarre and queasily familiar...