Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked the chauffeur, 'Should we go to Amsterdam?'" Allison says. He told them Amsterdam was dangerous. "We told him to drive north. Marty was real quiet most of the way." As the speeding Mercedes passed through the Bavarian night, Frankel asked Cindy if she still believed...
...gospel of peace to Adams and the wannabe gangsters of Belfast, who were planning a tribute to the violent rapper Tupac Shakur (gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996) until the homies told them that ain't cool. One of their ex-teammates is doing hard time for a drive-by shooting. "Our brief engagement," Adams later wrote to Hayes, "livened up an otherwise dreary set of meetings." Namely, the peace talks...
...Burnsian style is full blown in both works: slow pacing, reverent interviewees, soothing strings and custardy voice-overs. It may seem harsh to call this sentimental and dull, but something in this pledge-drive-friendly aesthetic belittles the films' intense, contentious subjects. The suffrage movement was ardent and revolutionary; what we get sounds like an ice cream social...
...conduct any kind of survey. The Postal Service is not about to charge 5[cents] for every e-mail. Deodorants do not cause breast cancer. M&M's will not give you free candy, nor will the Gap send you a free pair of jeans, nor will Honda drive a brand-new Civic to your front door if you pass on "their" messages...
...past 14 months, Progressive, the country's fifth-largest auto insurer, has been testing an optional pay-as-you-go system in Texas, using black boxes to track drivers' activity, including when and where they are going, via satellite. Monthly invoices are based on actual usage--the less you drive, the less you pay--and so far, Houston drivers have saved an average of 25% on their premiums. Progressive plans to launch the program in other states in the near future. Privacy advocates are concerned that despite safeguards, the information could by used against a driver in criminal and civil...