Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amos (from this reporter's seat, she seemed to be wearing her hair in a ponytail, but I can't be sure). But at least the sheer size of the arena enables people of all crowds--from the teenyboppers to the sensitive adults to the occasional college-aged cynic with a heart of gold--to enjoy her music first-hand, and to be a part of the mystical magic that is Tori Amos, even if for only a little while...
...cynic might respond that the world has quite enough morality already, and would be better off without the likes of Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, political dissident Harry Wu, Alan Keyes '72 and representatives Christopher H. Smith and J.C. Watts advocating positions that may limit our "rights" of privacy and choice. But one look at the violent inhumanity that has recently shocked our nation shows that there is still some room for emphasis on old-fashioned "right and wrong...
...appearances, he is not. And that is the real tragedy in Girlfriend in a Coma. Coupland's writing style is fresh and funny, but he is clearly at his best when he's playing the witty cynic, not the platitude-dribbling prophet. Advice for the future: leave the crusading to the Unabomber...
...about Clinton and his country than journalism has yet been able to provide: that of course the better angels of Clinton's nature are in bed with his devils, that each side requires the other, that his political gifts can't be separated from his personal flaws. Idealist and cynic, moralist and seducer, truth teller and liar, misty-eyed romantic and gimlet-eyed backstabber--it's all one package. Maybe the right leader for now is the one who will stop at nothing, the one who can be absolutely sincere while lying through his teeth...
...Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find in movies of this kind...