Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counterattack hit home, then rising once again. By Monday night, the eve of the speeches, Dole had dipped from the mid- to high 30s down to 30, but was flattening out there. Forbes, after some ups and downs, appeared to be leveling off at 18%, while Gramm, after a brief charge during which he briefly surpassed Forbes, held around...
...highest tax brackets, that has given Detroit a jolt of renewed self-esteem and left foreign manufacturers struggling in the dust. Even looking backward, it is not clear why. Maybe the baby boomers, grown thick in the waist, were bored with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf or Ford Escort said nothing whatsoever. Did we need talking cars? Apparently...
...forth, swinging her arms in the air, and speaking as if in a daze. Instead of being menacing, she seemed simply loopy, like a evil version of Carol Kane--you know something is wrong when "I hate her! I loathe her!" becomes a laugh line. Barbara Matteau's brief turn as Madame, while awkward, succeeded in injecting some relieving frivolity into the play...
...paradox of big weather: it makes people feel important even while it dramatizes their insignificance. In some ways, extreme weather is a brief moral equivalent of war--as stimulating as war can sometimes be, though without most of the carnage...
Following the masters' remarks, Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of classical Greek literature, made brief remarks...