Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pathways of diplomacy must be trod with care. It's customary when visiting the Golden Temple, the Sikh's holiest shrine in the Punjab, to remove one's shoes. However, Queen Elizabeth, who will visit the Indian temple later this month, is not a barefoot kind of gal. So a compromise has been reached. The Queen will wear white socks...
Even when a patient is conscious, though, the burn team must focus first not on painkillers but on stabilizing the blood pressure. The New York team accomplishes this by pumping as much as 8 gal. of a salt fluid into his veins in the first 24 hours of treatment, a process that can cause the patient temporarily to gain as much...
...last weekend in August, my two young daughters and I will pack our suburban minivan with 2 1/2 gal. of water per person per day and head off to northern Nevada. There, in thousands of square miles of pure desert nothingness, 20,000 cheering, dancing celebrants will circle a towering, two-legged wooden sculpture and burn it to the ground...
...main plot thread off which Altman works involves Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a punchy, fast-talking gal looking to get her husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) back from a gangster, Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), whom he foolishly irked. Kidnapping Carolyn Stilton (Miranda Richardson), the doped-up wife of a prominent politician, arises as the logical solution: she hopes to force Mr. Stilton to sic the police on the gangster...
Leigh doesn't give us anything too new--we've seen her fast-talking, tough-gal shtick before--but here she backlights her act with a implicit desperation that gnaws away at one's core. Even her act feels tragic as such: like a dreamy teenager, she rattles off to Mrs. Stilton her favorite movie stars and their birth places, and we begin to think she herself is merely an amalgam of all the brands of scrappy newspaperwoman bravery she's seen on screen...