Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frenzy. On leave from other agencies, 200 federal officials trekked daily to the Old Executive Office Building, only to discover they had to wait in long lines at the Secret Service checkpoints. The service's computers routinely deleted the names of people who just went out for lunch. A code of secrecy meant that no directory was widely available to assist task-force members in contacting one another. Sessions were delayed or completely canceled for lack of space in meeting rooms. Robert Valdez, a UCLA public-health professor who eventually served as co-chairman of the benefits working group, arrived...
...other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, Christopher Walken as a Mafia don) and flee -- with the surprise package of a suitcase full of cocaine -- to Los Angeles. Their moral code is hardly more righteous than that of their pursuers, but they're on their way, down a white-brick road toward the end of the rainbow. You kind of know Elvis will be there...
...more appealing images of Kennedy than those of him sailing, his hair tousled? At San Clemente, Nixon reminded the country that he was a poor boy who had made good and -- lest his native state forget it in the 1972 election -- that he was a Californian. Ronald Reagan -- code name "Rawhide" -- could not possibly have reinforced his image as a mythic cowboy any better than by riding at his "ranch." Bush used his powerboat, of course, to defuse accusations of wimpiness. Lacking a summer White House, Clinton misses the opportunity to burn such images into the mind of the public...
...much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times, then I kick-box your ugly face...
...Italy whose people have named their plagued government Tangentopoli, or "Pay-Off City," many are implicated in the corporation, and everyone is suspect. Not unlike the Sicilian tradition of the family so potent in the mafiosi, an implicit code of honor in Italy puts those who have broken the trust of the people permanently out of trust. The recent deaths may only express a more distasteful realization of this tradition...