Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Worby all along has had defenders who value what she brings to the state. "Like a bird,'' former Charleston Gazette columnist Don Marsh wrote in 1991, "she is too vivid; her color is too bright." Added a recent Gazette editorial: "In all her plumage, she's a conspicuous member of West Virginia's ornithology ... Undoubtedly, she will continue to draw barrages. But wouldn't it be dull without...
...When I saw [the piece] in a theatre for anintimate audience, I saw a piece that concludedwith full frontal nudity by a beautiful womanunder bright lights, followed by full frontalnudity from a man." Fanger said...
...twin brother (Gordon Rand) have evolved a rapid-fire patter that tongue-ties everyone around them. Smith and Rand do a nifty job of depicting the deepest sibling affinities. They can finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley as the world's most dexterous waiter) are not quite up to the mark. The Clandon family...
...specific. It is measurable. It will achieve real, concrete results." In Tokyo, however, Hisashi Hosokawa, a hard-line miti official, insisted that "this agreement is a rejection of numerical targets" for Japanese purchases of American cars and parts. His boss, miti Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, may have strengthened his already bright chances for becoming Japan's next Prime Minister: he was being hailed as a hero precisely for having got Kantor to drop a U.S. demand for such targets...
American manufacturing slowed in June for the second month in a row after 20 consecutive months of advances, according to the National Association of Purchasing Management. The June level is the lowest since May, 1991. But as business slows at home, it seems to be strengthening abroad. One bright spot in the NAPM report: export orders were up, a reflection of productivity improvements, a cheaper U.S. dollar and softening prices for raw materials...