Word: impress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare department.) She recalls, "I kept thinking of Sylvester Stallone, penniless and writing Rocky because he believed in it." Beattie's "I'm-in-the-emotional-trenches-wi th-you" style has a powerful appeal for her readers. Treatment counselor Scott Egleston says, "Melody doesn't write to impress. I don't see a lot of 50 cents words...
...mother's stories planted the seed. Yet she was illiterate. So you cannot tell me that a parent must be educated in order to impress this upon a child. A parent who is aware of his or her responsibility will do everything to insure that the child will at least have a fighting chance...
...growing number of women entering politics in the U.S., the country is just beginning the journey toward full equality. In the West, women like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland have had to struggle against the traditional demands of gender in order to impress their visions on national policies. For decades the Communist states of Europe boasted of political egalitarianism, making a show of filling token government posts with women. But revolution has torn down the facades, revealing just how cosmetic was the "power" shared by the East's women. Now the emergence...
Such antiquated ideas are going the way of the vibrating-band contraption our mothers once used to battle the bulge. Women are working those bodies as never before, and not so much to impress a man as to impress the person flexing in the mirror. "Working out is a way of life for me," says Lorri Sparks, 37, athletic director of New York City's Downtown Athletic Club. "Sometimes I'd rather work out with a man than even have sex." Not everyone adopts that hard-core approach, but many are sympathetic: they are women; they are getting strong...
...committed to raising consciousness as she is to having fun. "I try to slip in a few lines about something serious. But I'm not a preacher," says Latifah, a.k.a. Dana Owens. As she chants in her hit song Latifah's Law, "BMWs and gold rope chains don't impress me, won't get you closer to the point you could undress me." The name Latifah, she notes, is Arabic for delicate and sensitive. As for calling herself Queen, "it has nothing to do with rank. I believe all black people came from a long line of kings and queens...