Word: impressionism
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But is there a chance that Rushing’s reform-minded platform has finally caused Finneran to change his stripes? He and his crack team of sycophantic representatives would have us believe so. In a speech to the House that had just voted him in overwhelmingly, Finneran uncharacteristically claimed...
Now: journalists are wisely trained to take such phrases with a healthy dose of skepticism. Silver-penned speechwriters can put any sentiments they like into their master's voice. Plenty of people, in the U.S. and outside it, think Bush's fine words about liberty and openness are lies; the...
The Vatican prefers to do things quietly. So, sometimes, did Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law. For years, when sexually abusive clergymen were brought to his attention, he quietly transferred them from one parish to another. By last April, as the scandal over pedophile priests escalated, Law, the most powerful of...
And yet the overriding impression one gets of Kerry from reading the press he has received since announcing his formation of an exploratory committee to consider a run for president is exactly that: Massachusetts’ junior senator is extremely antsy about accurate descriptions of his place on the political...
Every week Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma's staff sends out a missive to all the country's television, radio and newspaper outlets. Known as temniki, "theme lists," the directives outline the issues to be covered in news reports and provide instructions on how these issues are to be treated. For...