Word: inch
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Perhaps we should not feel sorry for Dole. Because if Steve Forbes' support in New Hampshire turns out to be more than a fluke, and Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan inch higher in the polls, Dole will get desperate, and the result will be painful for us all to see. Dole's initial flurry of negative attack ads has been futile, and he is now starting to reach for his secret weapon--his war injury...
CAPE TOWN, S. AFRICA: Nelson Mandela, looking fit and every inch a president, opened the third South African Parliament since the 1994 all-race elections with a healing hour-long speech: "We can neither heal nor build, if on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants, or if, on the other hand, the poor sit back expecting charity," Mandela told Parliament in a televised speech. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports from Cape Town that South Africa has made a remarkably smooth transition from white-only rule. Some cultural problems must be sorted...
Feelings of alienation and cynicism, unfortunately, are very much in vogue in popular culture and run rampant through it. Anyone who has listened to the lyrics of such groups as Nine Inch Nails or Smashing Pumpkins has undoubtedly felt the incoherent and inexplicable anger conveyed by the music. (Not surprisingly, Seven director David Fincher has many music videos under his belt. The movie's opening music is, in fact, a Nine Inch Nails tune.) And it's impossible to watch television without seeing talk shows and real-crime dramas which amplify and extort human misery for ratings...
...were lost, many to heart attacks triggered by Sisyphean shoveling. Bill Clinton called the storm a "national disaster" and promised federal relief. In the New York region alone, an estimated $1 billion was lost to interrupted business and cleanup costs.Every region got more than it was prepared for. An inch of icy snow sufficed in Atlanta, where tractor-trailers skidded across highway lanes and the indoor Peachtree Center shopping area became deserted...
...were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy--a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last...