Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love to tell you what Tonya has to say about all this, but her sometime agent, David Hans Schmidt, said she would accept no less than $10,000 for an interview because she's flat broke and "all she has is her infamy." Schmidt did offer to arrange an interview with another client, Harding's ex-husband, for just "a couple, two, three thousand dollars...
...high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels), the three churches (Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal) ministering to a population...
...many in the industry, profits have melted under the costs of these incentives. They fell 24% in 1996--dropping 300% from the mid-1980s--and remained flat last year, pounded by a wave of delinquencies as consumers maxed out their debt. "The credit-card free-for-all has come back to haunt the industry," says Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research. To stanch the southern flow of profits, card issuers are seeking to edge up their income by retrenching on offers and charging penalties, new fees and higher rates...
Against the nurses' orders I bring her vanilla ice cream from time to time in a small cardboard cup, and I feed her with a flat wooden spoon. She takes her regular food through a tube in her stomach, so the taste of the sweet, cold substance makes her salivate and smile. She will exclaim, "This is delicious!" after every taste, with exactly the same intonation, as if she feared that if she used any other formula to express her appreciation, I would not reward her with another spoonful...
Strolling into Hanover, NH to finish what it started 21 days before when it slaughtered Dartmouth 80-55 in Cambridge, the Harvard men's basketball team stumbled awkwardly and ended up flat on its face...