Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assumption that the grandmother, who was listed as Carmin's guardian, held the account. "The IRS is satisfied that money does not belong to the taxpayer that owes the Government money," said an agency spokesman. Carmin, meanwhile, celebrated the news, and escaped the summer heat, by frolicking in the cool spray of a garden hose...
Perhaps this cool lover will entice her onto the big screen. There is talk of film work -- maybe an adaptation of Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, maybe a movie version of Dreamgirls. Meanwhile, her family will keep Whitney well protected. Her brothers run interference for her on tour; Robyn offers support and palship; John promotes and shields the family star. Still, Dad must wonder when the cocoon becomes a cage. Last year, after a concert in London, Whitney joined the crew at the local Hippodrome. "I was nervous," he recalls. "At one point I spotted her on the dance floor...
Some think that compromise came only because the weather finally relented. After weeks of broiling heat, a breeze blew from the northwest on Friday, July 13. That weekend the delegates could get some sleep. Monday the 16th was cool. The Connecticut compromise offered by Sherman a month earlier began to seem eminently reasonable. So a somewhat amended version was agreed...
That tough winnowing process, crafted by the framers to cool passions for change, is by most accounts a good thing. A constitution is supposed to be a tightly knit plan of government, not an open statute book. Bulk can even be an inverse indication of its power: the 181 articles in the constitution of the Weimar Republic were the Maginot Line of German democracy. "It's dangerous to amend the Constitution too much," says Columbia University Law Professor Vincent Blasi. "It won't have the look of fundamental...
...fact, his manner and his voice were basic to his success, creating an illusion of ordinariness. This was not unplanned. Nothing in the use of his only instrument -- himself -- ever was. A cool calculator of effects, a steely perfectionist in execution, he always affected astonishment over adulation. As Mikhail Baryshnikov said, Astaire often seemed to stand wryly outside himself, observing his work as wonderingly as anyone else...