Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough job it is too, as is Cox's. If the Series that concludes this epic play-off season goes the full seven games through Sunday, one of the managers is going to wake up the next morning and have to face two ugly realities: losing and November...
...childhood will neatly end at the campus gates, at which time I will join the Peace Corps, take swing-dancing lessons and never again utter the words "Why? Because I said so!" But the transition from childhood to college is seldom smooth for parents or their offspring, who face life for the first time without curfews, vegetables or clean laundry--and with plenty of social and academic pressure...
...Rage Against the Machine is doing much the same thing in music. Rock is going through a period of heaviness. Bands are getting louder, lyrics more aggressive; voices are growling. Rock-hop acts helped open the door for a more in-your-face sound; now straight-ahead rock acts are pouring through. The hard-rock band Creed recently scored a No. 1 album; Bush and Live, after hiatuses, have new (mediocre) CDs out. There's also Woodstock 99, a mostly dull double CD with live songs by rock-hoppers (Limp Bizkit, Korn) and straight-ahead rockers (Godsmack, Buckcherry) drawn from...
LOOKING DEATH IN THE FACE...
...streets and geared specifically to women. Brightly lighted and decorated in pastels, the shops manage to make the selling of erotic lingerie and sex aids seem more naughty than nasty. And 70% of Ann Summers' sales last year are estimated to have come from females. "We're the acceptable face of the sex industry," boasts Jacqueline Gold, managing director of the chain...