Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have their own cognitive-dissonance theory: Americans have been bamboozled by a vicious, well-financed conservative opposition, and by an unsympathetic press corps, into believing that Clinton is deeply morally flawed. But they support his policies and perhaps will come to reappraise him personally on the basis of his manifest desire to make life better for them...
...polling numbers reflect a convention-spurred bounce that puts the Dole ticket only 10 or 12 points behind Clinton's campaign. But President Clinton will get his chance to widen that lead when the Democratic convention begins in Chicago August 26. Some of the campaign battle lines are already manifest in the nationwide thrust-parry-counterthrust of TV campaign commercials. A new Clinton ad timed for the end of the Republican convention says Dole would cut Medicare by $270 million, and let toxic polluters "off the hook." The GOP will respond shortly with a massive series...
...plane blew up, federal aviation authorities were reluctantly coming to the conclusion that the crash was the result of an act of terrorism. Although TWA had been criticized by distraught relatives for failing to confirm the names of victims quickly enough, the airline swiftly turned over the passenger manifest to federal intelligence officials so they could scrutinize it for possible leads...
Scalia's siege mentality was manifest in his speech this spring at a Mississippi prayer breakfast. "We are fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world," he declared, explaining that in educated circles Christians are regarded as "simpleminded." The speech echoed one he gave last year at Princeton University, where he maintained that his views on the proper role of judges were regarded as "simpleminded" in "sophisticated circles...
...Anyone who listens to Roberts' two new albums, due out this week, Portraits in Blue (featuring a re-examination of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, as well as some other, shorter pieces) and Time and Circumstance (a theme album of Roberts' original songs), will hear that mastery made manifest. By taking on what is arguably Gershwin's best composition and at the same time releasing what is his most satisfying and sophisticated record of his own compositions, Roberts demonstrates his technical virtuosity and passionate intelligence in impressive fashion. And yes, with soul...