Word: creep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complex, attractive and familiar; they could be working at the next desk or sleeping on the next pillow. They can be loved and can betray almost simultaneously. Matt can be both timid ("I'm actually afraid of my own kid") and, when defending his craft against a studio creep, vindictive ("You know nothing but how to pose for this little picture of you that nobody is snapping"). The insecure mogul somehow appeals to the sensitive researcher ("I think it's so wonderful that you don't worry about even trying to act strong"). All are trying to raise their moral...
...Midlerisms creep in, especially the ironic Sophie Tucker/W.C. Fields drawl. "A lot has to be played for laughs," Midler insists. "I thought she had to be very winning.Otherwise, how could she get all those people to do all those things for her?" Textually, the production is faithful, word for word and as Midler says, note for note and tempo for tempo...
Though some economists think the jobless rate may get stuck at 6.4% for a while or even creep back up, Tyson and some private forecasters see a chance for it to go down further. The reasoning: inventories by one estimate are the lowest in 20 years, but factory orders are up, 1.2% in October; presumably they will have to be filled by new production. The average workweek in manufacturing has increased to 41.7 hours, the most since World War II, which leaves little or no room to raise output by working the existing staff still harder. Some factories will have...
...resemblance of a computer account to its credit card relative includes the issue of security. While what you lose when some creep makes his way into your account is not a fistful of dollars, your files may be altered, or deleted, and your privacy may be completely violated...
...grassy square in the middle of Slubice, a Polish town on the German border, is known locally as "the Bermuda Triangle." Most mornings, but particularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays when traffic across the frontier is heavy and the guards are busy, crowds of hopeful immigrants from Eastern Europe creep out of the woods and doorways where they have spent the night. Men, women and children straggle into the square to rendezvous with their "tour guides," the smugglers who will help them disappear into the West -- for fees ranging from...