Word: jagging
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...friend. Some minor players make uncommon impact, especially Andrew Duncan as a lecherous pressagent and Linda Miller as a divorcee who takes up with a 19-year-old lover. As the not wholly unsympathetic husband, Murphy pulls off a daring piece of acting-a faked yet affecting crying jag that accompanies his guilt-ridden confession of infidelity. Bates, of course, is the most appealing suitor that any woman, married or unmarried, could wish...
After the team's overwhelming performance, coach Bill McCurdy expressed guarded optimism about the future. "We should be able to handle Yale on Tuesday without any emotional jag, but Northeastern in the GBC's will be the big question to ponder...
UNGARO, on an Oriental jag, splashed landscape prints across many of his skirts. Exotic evening dresses were modernistic geometric renderings of the kimono, with wide sashes at the waist and necklines that sometimes slashed to the sash. A shrewd departure, considering that 20% of haute couture clients nowadays are Japanese...
...question around Washington when the music died and President Carter got down to work: How long would the world let us continue on this lovely jag? More to the point, would Carter be able to nurture this spirit now and help Americans find one another? It was Richard Nixon, after all, who preached the celebration of "simple things" from the same place eight years ago-and then limousined down to the White House and turned it into an imperial palace. Despite his humble background, Lyndon Johnson was a creature of power, and when he finally stood on the Capitol steps...
...adopt a procedure called "replacement-cost accounting." The move represents a long-overdue attempt to clear away the distorting effects of inflation on a company's bottom line. The rule involves some tinkering with numbers that, if integrated into the corporate accounts, could cause a sharp downward jag in an earnings report...