Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Council Efforts Fall Flat...
...walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist, who plays this one so straight and flat that neither he nor his hero can find any curative trouble for Duane to get into. The poor fellow needs a buffalo stampede or a seductive IRS auditor, but nothing turns...
...rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront of style: the sleek, flat headphones are in the Museum of Modern Art's collection...
...trade gap," but thinks they will be largely offset by further gains in consumer spending, business investment in information technology and "some increase in government spending." Profits of companies whose stocks are included in the Standard & Poor's 500 index will rise about 5%, she forecasts, vs. a flat performance this year but well below the double-digit gains of 1997 and earlier years. Inflation, Reaser thinks, is bottoming out this year, with the Consumer Price Index rising a trifling 1.5%. She expects about 2.4% in 1999--still no cause for deep worry...
This price difference applies to foodstuffs as well. The Star Market at Porter Square is much less costly than Sage's on the corner of Church and Brattle Street. A box of Tiger Woods Wheaties at Star Market is $2 flat; at Sage's the "Breakfast of Champions" costs $2.99. Finally, Spicy Nacho Doritos at Star Market are $1.79, a full $0.40 cheaper than at Sage...