Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson and Sharon Stone stay on a small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...
Then they waited. Not much happened for the first three months, as the animals dragged their back legs. Then one day, a few of them started to flex their hind muscles. Awkwardly at first, and then with growing strength, they began to crawl around. A year later, they could support their weight and move their rear legs, although they were still not walking normally...
Watkins thinks the school is just the place for Wills. "Eton is extraordinarily well suited for a boy like him--for dealing with someone who has a public future. He must make his name within the school. He can't flex his money. There is no personal expression through clothes, and cars are not allowed. Wealth or personage outside the school mean little." In this self-contained world, titles confer no privileges, and the prince is probably not the only boy with a bodyguard. Foreign leaders' children and scions of Greek shipping magnates bring them along too. Says London School...
...pays at the upper end of the industry scale and provides full health insurance, a discount stock-purchase plan and a cash profit-sharing bonus. The company has offered flex-time for 20 years and has incorporated job sharing, compressed work weeks and telecommuting...
Cindy Sherman, the artist who rose to fame in the '80s for slightly creepy photos of herself in various guises, will now flex those creepy muscles as director of an unnamed independent horror movie. "She has great command of the mise-en-scene," says producer Christine Vachon, who worked with photographer Larry Clark on Kids. "She just needed a little push...