Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rubie Watson, associate curator at the Peabody, says the museum is trying to appeal to a broader community than just the academics and professionals...
Clinton's tax cuts resemble the dealer incentives that Detroit once offered to win back buyers who had switched to Japanese cars. Clinton's "Middle-Class Bill of Rights" is designed to appeal to voters who supported him in 1992, but this year bolted to the G.O.P. -- or stayed home. As with rebates, however, there is some fine print: Clinton's $500-a-child tax credit would be available only to parents with adjusted incomes between $20,000 and $60,000 who have children under 13. Parents who earned up to $75,000 would get a smaller break...
...arrived as neither a leather-jacketed Johnny Depp knock-off nor a mall-stud Tom Cruise clone. Instead, the Londoner brought urbane sex appeal back to the screen. Womankind swooned at Grant's portrayal of a befuddled, beguiling wit in Four Weddings and a Funeral...
...March sisters navigate the passage from girlhood to womanhood with grace, spirit and infinite appeal in Gillian Armstrong's passionate realization of the 19th century children's classic. Winona Ryder leads an entrancing cast in a family film that interrupts our pious pratings about "family values" to say something truthful and unsentimental on the subject...
Nonetheless, the tensions are real and not to be dismissed as mere mouthings by Yeltsin to appeal to nationalist sentiment at home. The very fact that Washington bashing is increasingly popular will make it tempting for Yeltsin to do more and more of it -- especially since his prospects of being re- elected in 1996 currently seem as shaky as Clinton's. In one recent poll, Russians were asked whether they would rather live in the "state system" headed by Yeltsin or in the one ruled by the late Leonid Brezhnev, whose leadership of the Soviet Union was long derided...