Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Follow Baby's cues. Learn what makes him or her happy or upset, curious or bored. Trying to accelerate babies' learning process by deluging them with flash cards of colors, shapes and letters is of dubious value. If too much activity agitates your child, ease up on the intensity and length of play...
...much as I used to without gaining a few pounds, and I have to run farther just to maintain my weight. So when a friend suggested pumping iron as a way to boost my burn rate, I was skeptical (Arnold Schwarzenegger leaped to mind) but curious. After all, the number of women using free weights has doubled, from 7.4 million in 1987 to 16.8 million in 1997. Surely they're not all training for the Ms. Olympia contest...
...response to Noah D. Oppenheim's column defending final clubs, I have but one question. What club is he punching? I'm just curious because I don't ever want to attend a party he might be a part of. I've read his "offensively arrogant," sexist opinions for some time now. If I were "confined [and] pumped full of alcohol," I might feel compelled to "find an easy target to eradicate injustice...
...range of scholars from the outset, responded by adding two Freud critics to the advisory panel, even as he questioned the motives of some of the protesters. "In the Freud industry," says Roth, "some people get a lot out of being angry." Swales in particular is known for his curious battling tactics, mailing opponents long, single-spaced letters, with copies sent to colleagues or the media; to Freud biographer Peter Gay, Swales added a cutout picture of Gay with his hand colored red. But several signers of the petition have since distanced themselves from it. Nathan Hale, a psychoanalytic historian...
...come as a bit of a shock. Warbling through a cameo in kitschy Austin Powers, Burt Bacharach has gained a prominence of late, with ripened sex appeal and flawless lounge credentials. In all the fuss, though, what has been neglected is the mastery of his songwriting, full of curious melodies, startling chord changes and the catchiest hooks this side of Top 40s radio. With lyricist Hal David and vocalist Dionne Warwick, he produced some of the best pop songs of the '60s, at the moment when rock was sending the pure songwriting tradition to its final death throes...