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...tabloids quickly dubbed her "Moan-ica" and demanded, "Stop that grunt!" One writer, claiming to have monitored her with a "gruntometer," said the noises coming out of the 18-year-old registered 93 decibels, about what a diesel train would produce. The grunts emitted by Gabriela Sabatini and Jennifer Capriati were deemed dulcet whimpers compared with Monica's. Countered Seles: "I don't think I'm going to win a match because I'm grunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop That Grunt! | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

Hepburn calls Norah, her housekeeper who got the job because she did not sit until Hepburn did, with a loud grunt of the sort not heard outside a barnyard or a soccer match. "Eeuuuuuunhhhh!" A deep breath and another grunt. "Why," Hepburn turns to confide in me, "do they only hear you the second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...Grunt all you want. Millions of people were helped by Robert Fulghum's first two books, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and It Was on Fire When I Lay Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Itty-Bitty | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...consumer models won't exactly ride like the grunt versions. Seats will be more heavily padded, and the doors will be made of steel rather than fiber glass, for safety's sake. LTV hopes to sell 1,000 of the Humvees this year at a price from $40,500 to $44,000, which is about twice as much as a Jeep Cherokee costs but about the same as a Range Rover. The first customer to enlist was the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Good thing the manufacturers removed the missile launcher and cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Humvee in The Driveway | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...People who have been out of college for threeor four years are in a tougher position,"Cosentino said. "They won't be willing to takelower-level, low-playing grunt work, but thosefresh out of college will be more apt to takethose positions...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Job Market Worst in 20 Years | 1/9/1991 | See Source »

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