Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...themselves. But Tonya Harding is not -- nor has she ever been -- like most skaters. She is neither politic nor polished, sociable nor sophisticated. Instead, she is the bead of raw sweat in a field of dainty perspirers; the asthmatic who heaves uncontrollably while others pant prettily; the pool- playing, drag-racing, trash-talking bad girl of a sport that thrives on illusion and politesse. While rivals fairly float through their programs, she's the skater who best bullies gravity. She fights it off like a mugger, stroking the ice hard, pushing it away the same way she brushes off fans...
...being created in the '50s, Vegas' Strip was a mutant kind of American main drag, an absurdly overscaled Main Street for cars instead of people. Everywhere else in the country the shopping mall was replacing the traditional downtown. But now the Strip in Las Vegas has come full circle, its vacant stretches filling in with so many new hotels and casinos that what had been the ultimate expression of car culture has masses of tourists walking from Bally's to Caesars to Treasure Island, and from the Luxor to the Excalibur to the MGM Grand. The Strip is virtually...
...FAMILY. Who needs prosecutors? Wayward sister LaToya said mother Katherine had called Michael a "damn faggot" even as Mom went on TV to defend him. But LaToya had her own problems. British Immigration officers detained her for 90 minutes, suspecting she was Michael in drag...
Okay, I had to drag it to my doorstep from the mail center. And no, it's not a genuine, living arboreal piece that gives my room a fresh pine scent. But it was, at least, fully decorated both times...
...price cuts "could be a wonderful Christmas present," says Hugh Johnson, chief economist of First Albany Corp., a New York investment firm. "They are effectively a tax cut for consumers and business, and that will more than neutralize the drag from the higher taxes and lower spending of the Clinton ((deficit-cutting)) plan." Johnson is worried that oil prices may rebound, but others think they could go lower. The prestigious Middle East Economic Survey sees a chance that they will range between $15 and a mere...