Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kwan had something to prove, though she carefully avoids the dread R word. Rivalry, after all, doesn't have a pretty past in women's skating, thanks to the thuggery of 1994. (This year, the biggest worry is autograph seekers; top competitors are escorted to the practice rink by security guards.) When asked about Lipinski, Kwan told TIME, "We respect each other, and I don't like to focus on any one name when I compete. She's just like any other competitor." Perhaps, but she was the competitor who mattered...
Morrison naturally welcomes the commercial windfalls such recognition brings, but she is not terribly comfortable with being recognized in that way. She faces her upcoming publicity tour for Paradise with a certain dread, although she feels she owes the effort to her publisher, which has a large investment in the novel. "I get cranky and depressed on the road," she says. As a Nobel laureate, she has a little more cachet than struggling first novelists, so she has been able to set certain limits on how she is displayed. "I've refused to do the morning TV shows. I just...
...leveling off. Then came Indonesia. "The panic in Indonesia reminded everyone that the Asia problems aren't going away." In some ways, Indonesia, ripe with rumors of civil unrest and even a military coup, is worse because it sparks the imagination. "Having that on their minds, with the dread of next week," says Schwartz, "there was a rush Friday to get some profits out before it all comes down...
...subdued, but then a gust of forceful, mordent arpeggios stirred one back to sense. Pratt's deliberation over the chromaticism of variation 20 was delicious, and his energized attacca of the fugue was stupendous. This is not your grandfather's Brahms--Wilhelm Backhaus was. Wilhelm Backhaus did not have dread-locks...
...jeans first made by Levi Strauss in 1873 had been adopted as the uniform for class rebellion. But the enduring, red-tagged faded blues have recently earned another reputation. "My mom wears Levi's," says Hannah Gasner, 15, a Manhattan high school sophomore, uttering the words that youth marketers dread. "I think about them as the first jeans invented. Levi's are reliable...