Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protect the most powerful man in the world, to cancel the rally when he needs his sleep, to can the speechwriter who just won't cut it, to worry about who's in charge, to say the things no one else will when she tells her old man to clean up his language (Bess Truman), eat his broccoli (Barbara Bush), upgrade his jogging shorts (Hillary Clinton) or remind him with a Post-It note on the bathroom mirror to "Smile" (Elizabeth Dole). And to do it all with the curtains open and the lights...
...inspectors found the Red Cross to possess dangerously little control over its blood operations. Another is that the FDA became so fed up with the lack of progress in the first two years of her administration that the agency went to federal court to compel the Red Cross to clean up its act. In this juxtaposition of spin and reality lies an example of the image-burnishing skills that have helped Mrs. Dole survive jobs under six different Presidents...
...used to come home from school and look down at my mother and her idleness, my roommates believe that I do nothing all day. "But what about all that laundry?" I want to shout. "Don't you notice how shiny the kitchen counters look and how many clean dishes we have in the cabinets?" my heart asks. Somehow I have managed to spend the bulk of the time they are gone doing one aspect of housework or another. Just about the only thing I haven't been doing is all the reading and relaxing and writing...
...cannot physically be home before midnight. However, now that we have calculated that midnight is the earliest possible moment he can get away, I find myself growling and grunting laments to the effect of "the least he can do is come home and spend time in this lovely clean apartment" as midnight comes and goes. My past coming back to haunt me, my other roommate remarked last night that she feels like the little kid hoping her parents won't fight when daddy gets home from work...
...Schickel kidding when he wrote that Tom Cruise sports "the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star"? Cruise looks great--clean, sleek and lithe. Just what is called for. Besides, his new look is hardly new at all: everybody knows this haircut worked wonders for Keanu Reeves in Speed and Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever. KRISTINA FELICIANO New York City Via E-mail...