Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the business of remaking the government, Aristide has never stopped preaching the gospel of reconciliation, often to the dismay of followers who want revenge for the estimated 3,000 people murdered during the military's reign of terror. American officials still express frustration that he does not always bow to U.S. wishes, but they are encouraged by his willingness to listen and talk. "He's a real politician now," says an American who met privately with Aristide. "Before, he was antagonistic. Now he's genuinely seeking out advice. People feel he's making a real effort...
Every large city ties itself in a big red bow each Christmas, but no place gets with the holiday program in quite the way New York does. Across from the Rockefeller Center tree, Saks Fifth Avenue tells the Yuletide tale of plucky Art Aimesworth vs. the Dark Elves in six sprightly windows (with narration by Cindy Crawford, Peter Duchin, Brooke Shields, Dominick Dunne, Martha Stewart and seven others). At Fendi the Christmas trees are as svelte and haughty as the Euro-mannequins. From the windows of the Warner Bros. Studio Store, a behemoth Bugs and three of his Looney Tunes...
...There is absolutely no magic from her first entrance in the Sibelius, and her tone simpers more than it captivates. During the most dramatic moments of the piece, one wonders whether she is capable of producing anything outside of the dynamic rangepiano to mezzo-forte-I often heard her bow biting into the string, but her tone gets lost somewhere between the f-holes and the microphone...
Meanwhile, in front of Sever Hall, two punches, arrayed in white clothing and bow ties, passed out literature concerning the relation of lactose to communist insurgency and offered chocolate milk to passers...
...what looked like a bow to the tobacco industry, the Speaker-to-be passed over Moorehead a second time in choosing the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The outgoing Democratic chairman, John Dingell, was the impresario of this year's subcommittee hearings on whether cigarette companies were manipulating the nicotine level of their product. The new head will be Thomas Bliley Jr. of the tobacco state of Virginia, who thinks cigarette regulation has gone quite far enough already. "Carlos is too kind a man to get into the kind of vicious fights that will occur over issues before...