Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Marie Antoinette approaching the guillotine, Imelda Marcos confronted fate with her head high. Stepping from a stretch limo in lower Manhattan, the former Philippine First Lady stunned the waiting throng with her sheer, low- cut turquoise terno -- the national costume in her homeland. Amid pushing photographers and chanting protesters, the elegant attire seemed inappropriate for the occasion: Imelda Marcos was being arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed in federal court...
...decried a "no-issue campaign" in which George Bush has run "irrelevantly, like someone seeking to be Grand Inquisitor" and Michael Dukakis has run "mechanically, like a candidate for Plant Superintendent." What tipped the scales to Dukakis for the Times was the budget deficit and Bush's plan to cut the capital-gains tax; for the Globe, it was Dan Quayle...
Cockburn read an excerpt from his book parodying the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, in which reporters cut off speakers before they can express their opinions...
...Monday, Xinhua said the temblor had killed 37 people, injured more than 100 and destroyed most of the houses in Lancang and Menglian counties. Buildings were destroyed in 14 surrounding counties and road links to the outside were cut but were being repaired, Xinhua said...
...trials were held Sunday at Soldiers Field, and all eight Crimson ruggers who tried out made the cut from 75 to 39 players, the New England Rugby Football Union announced two days...