Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...covers her fear with ferocity and blistering outrage at the ineptitude of the cops on the case. When she becomes romantically involved with Quinn, their love scenes have the scratch-and-bite fury that people generate when they are not at all sure they're doing the right thing. Whatever she's doing, however, Stowe transforms an ordinary sort of movie into something extraordinary...
...really believes such a practiced sound bite, least of all the skaters themselves. But Tonya Harding is not -- nor has she ever been -- like most skaters. She is neither politic nor polished, sociable nor sophisticated. Instead, she is the bead of raw sweat in a field of dainty perspirers; the asthmatic who heaves uncontrollably while others pant prettily; the pool- playing, drag-racing, trash-talking bad girl of a sport that thrives on illusion and politesse. While rivals fairly float through their programs, she's the skater who best bullies gravity. She fights it off like a mugger, stroking...
Nonsense, says an HHS official. "The White House had its bite at the apple. They could have changed our order even after the Post story." "Yeah, right," says a White House aide sarcastically. "That would have been smart politics? They knew what they were doing. This is the most sensitive issue in the country. They tried to sneak it by us without a serious round-table discussion, which it obviously demanded, and they succeeded. We've tried to keep a lid on abortion stuff so we could fight one fight on it, in the health- reform debate. Now they...
...forecasters saw little risk that Clinton's $20 billion tax increase on the wealthy would slow the recovery this year. People whose tax rates jumped from 31% to 36% or 39.6% in 1993 will be able to pay the increase in three annual installments and thus lessen the bite. The economists also said the burden of higher taxes on the economy would be far outweighed by the benefits of falling oil prices and low interest rates. "The tax increase is easily absorbable and is not going to derail the economy," said Meyer...
...their modern incarnation, these mighty messengers and fearless soldiers have been reduced to bite-size beings, easily digested. The terrifying cherubim have become Kewpie-doll cherubs. For those who choke too easily on God and his rules, theologians observe, angels are the handy compromise, all fluff and meringue, kind, nonjudgmental. And they are available to everyone, like aspirin. "Each of us has a guardian angel," declares Eileen Freeman, who publishes a bimonthly newsletter called AngelWatch from her home in Mountainside, New Jersey. "They're nonthreatening, wise and loving beings. They offer help whether...