Word: armfuls
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...ballroom tilts now and again--fore to aft, sometimes port to starboard. But the steps of the dancers remain steady. A diminutive 92-year-old dowager, resplendent in her pink ball gown, sparkling jewelry and a blond bouffant hairdo topped with a black velveteen bow, smiles on the arm of her young officer escort as he leads her through the traditional paces of the Gay Gordons. They are surrounded by a swirl of tuxedoes, taffeta and tiaras--a time warp on the water aboard the grandest dame of them all, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth...
America's China policy is now officially a businesslike one. The House of Representatives ended weeks of sputtering, vote-counting and furious arm-twisting Wednesday evening with a relatively comfortable 237-197 passage of the bill granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China. Businessmen and economists rejoiced, Big Labor gnashed its teeth and tore its hair. Bill Clinton (with an assist from the Republicans, the ex-presidents and the economic good times) pulled a NAFTA encore and convinced America that free trade is still a good thing, and maybe convinced historians there'll be something good to write about...
...what commentaries on the Old Testament refer to as "ebullitions of wrath." Some of Bobby's ebullitions have been on display in television news clips the last couple of days: Coach Knight hurling a molded plastic chair the length of a basketball court; Coach Knight, displeased, putting a straight-arm Darth Vader chokehold on one of his own players. The papers have also showed shots of Coach Knight flourishing a bullwhip during a team practice, leading me to think that at least some of his ebullitions are satirical...
...Congress's own investigative arm, the General Accounting Office, criticized two studies financed by the credit-card industry that purported to show that a substantial number of debtors could pay more. Questioning their assumptions, data and sampling procedures, the GAO said that "neither report provides reliable answers to the questions of how many debtors could make some repayment and how much debt they could repay...
...would have thought that Time Warner (parent company of Time Inc., which publishes TIME) would be on its best behavior while awaiting regulatory approval for its mammoth merger with America Online. But in its effort to win an arm-wrestling match with Disney, TW displayed the attributes of some of its prize properties: the discretion of Jenny Jones, the gentleness of Tony Soprano...