Word: browing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember the commercials: Louise sat at her kitchen table, a mass of paper spread out before her. At her side, brow furrowed, sat husband Harry. "Having choices we don't like is no choice at all," she fretted. That was 1994, and the enemy was Bill Clinton and his 1,364-page plan to fix the health-care system. Three years after the death of that plan, things have changed so much that today Clinton could run the ad to make his own point. That's because there's a new bogeyman: managed care. "Clinton's bureaucrats aren...
...architectural prints featured in the "New York/Rome" exhibit. The roof of the clinic structure, for example, is modeled on the temple depicted in a 17th century print by Gerard Audran of the Triumphal Entry of Constantine into Rome.. By merging his installation into the museum's high-brow art works, Avery intends to enshrine the clinic. He wants to recreate the medical world within the traditional temple of the museum...
...half-staff over Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles fought in his former wife's corner by resisting his mother's wishes, and a heated battle ended in his favor after Tony Blair sent in mediators. The Royals claim "the whole story is rubbish," although Channel 4 ? a respected high-brow network in Britain ? says it has top-secret, top-level sources...
...been nestled in the Bananas Foster by a handsome swain under the influence of one too many romantic comedies. As his lovely maiden scoops up the ring, he asks, "Will you marry me?" Her face lights up with joy. But a moment later a slight frown crosses her pretty brow. Looking deep into his eyes, she inquires, "Do you mean really, really marry...
...revels in revealing Middle-American desperation, the panic at knowing one has to get through the day. Even when he plays the sweetest people, he creates a roiling emotional subtext. There is odd stuff going on inside; he's wild and weird at heart. So he will furrow his brow and gaze doggily at the speaker, as if he's trying hard to listen to your problems so his head won't explode from all of his. Yet he can see the humor in himself. Says Shirley MacLaine, his co-star in Guarding Tess: "Nic winks at his own intensity...