Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winners in Jalisco support some aspects of Zedillo's economic belt-tightening program. Nonetheless, some Jalisco voters turned against the P.R.I. in part because of dismay over the nation's financial crisis. Since the December devaluation of the peso and the resulting sharp rise in prices, ``we earn enough to half-eat,'' jokes Catalina Ventura, speaking for herself and Concepcion Martinez, two saleswomen in a crafts shop in Tlaquepaque, outside Guadalajara, explaining why they had abandoned the P.R.I. to vote P.A.N. Such sentiments do not bode well for Zedillo's ability to unify the country behind the tough measures that...
...those NEW kneelength skirts, if you're too proud to snitch one out of your mother's closet. Pull on the tights of a Varga girl--How's that for fishnet worth? A tuxedo jacket--can you say Marlene Dietrich? (I can't.) Skinny belts are in. If not you, why not your belt...
What's left is still shocking. For in the film's first half, set in the 1970s, we see Lavin and his colleagues misuse their authority as teachers, surrogate parents, men of God. They instruct these utterly dependent children in their catechism. They impose discipline with a belt buckle, their faces hinting at the pleasure they take in their power. At night they show their tender side, with sweet murmurs and a hand under a boy's bed sheets...
What a circus! Press from across the country--The Globe, Associated Press, Reuters, People magazine--have set up camp on the sidewalk and in the middle of the street, with cameras, notebooks, videorecorders, and even a portable satellite dish strapped on one radio DJ's belt. The press corps looks as if an entire photographic enthusiasts' convention has taken the wrong turn on its way to the Hynes Convention Center...
...House Whip doesn't take out a belt and lash people (or so we're told...