Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, the glimpses of travel offered in this magazine comprise an itinerary no less coherent or sensible than those undertaken by more conventional pleasure-seekers. And in many ways, these are the places to which real people travel, whether searching for the perfect vacation spot, returning home for a brief visit with family or just passing through...
...diverse experiences conveyed by these brief dispatches all suggest that the search for the unique is becoming increasingly difficult. And if there is any hope for those seeking authentic pleasure spots, all signs indicate that such a search may just begin at home...
...George Bush, too, this thing is personal. While the U.S. Army and Marines prepared to go whirring and clanking and blasting their way north, U.S. government lawyers were beavering away on a brief for the prosecution of the ground war all the way to Baghdad. Certainly by Scudding Israel and launching oil slicks at desalination plants, Saddam justified expanding the war aims beyond the liberation of Kuwait. A presidential adviser remarked, "We're almost counting on this guy to use chemical weapons to clinch the case for dealing with him as a war criminal when this is over...
...industry's latest offense, in the popular wisdom, is apparent in its profits for 1990's fourth quarter, reported by the Energy Department last week. Thanks mostly to a brief rise in the price of crude to a high of $40, those earnings rose 77% above 1989's level. "We are protecting their oil with American boys," complains Senator Howard Metzenbaum, the Ohio Democrat who introduced a bill earlier this month calling for a surtax on the profits of the largest companies. "As quick as Saddam raised his sword, the oil companies raised their prices...
...Bening plays whores too -- Hollywood sometimes thinks that for women prostitution is the world's only profession -- but these doxies are in control. The smile that dimples her face in Valmont and The Grifters signals the sexual predator anticipating a hearty meal. An off-Broadway alumnus, Bening also did brief time in Postcards from the Edge as a romantic rival of Meryl Streep's. Time will tell if she can challenge Streep's pre-eminence. For now she seems a better bet as a threat to Kathleen Turner; she comes on like Turner's slim, sex-kitten kid sister...