Word: glares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career-conscious baby boomers are cringing in the glare of Bill Clinton's achievements, imagine how tough it is for the next President's half brother. After all, Americans reserve a special cruelty for the relatives of the prominent. In a country that despises losers, the biggest loser of all is perhaps the weak brother who is made even weaker by his brother's success. At the same time, Americans want their leaders to be godlike but still connected to the soil from which they sprang; so it is psychologically useful if the President is a colossus but his brother...
...FIRST IMAGES CAST an antic light on Operation Restore Hope. As Navy SEALs waded ashore in the moonlight, their faces blackened with camouflage paint, their bodies braced for confrontation, they were met and blinded by the glare of television lights. But the farcical aspect of the first live military landing soon faded as the troops fanned out from their beachhead into the anarchic city of Mogadishu. By daylight, the airport was secured, the city port occupied, and for the first time in two years, most of the firepower belonged to friendlies. Though it had barely begun, the U.S. operation...
...Sunday best dark blue suits will stand behind the podiums. The backdrop will be color coordinated with the rug. Each power tie will be carefully Knotted--strong colors but no too flashy. The men will smile their shining white teeth and the camerapeople will worry about the glare. All the face will be carefully pancaked to prevent sweat--remember Nixon. The moderator and the panelists will be introduced and the audience will clap politely...
Miller's performance was intensely physical: He snapped his suspenders incessantly, or gripped frenziedly at his mouth when describing his first kiss, speaking raptly of the meeting of tongues, the taste of gums, the feel of the roof of the mouth. And then, under the glare of a red light, he stripped off his clothes, trying to erase the disgust and guilt instilled in him as a child. However, this act was slightly spoiled by our haunting certainly that he might not have been so ready to bare his childhood "shame" if he had not had such a slender, youthful...
...glare is on these families now because Farrow, who adopted three children when she was married to Andre Previn and added four more as a single mother, has been accused by Allen of manipulating and abusing her kids. "I hate to see large families get tarred with that brush," says Californian Bob DeBolt, who with his wife Dorothy adopted 14 disabled children and was the subject of a documentary that won an Oscar in 1978. "We can't generalize on large families any more than we can on family values...