Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laid low for a while, and resurfaced in 1994 with the smooth, sultry grooves of Bed-time Stories. In the few weeks leading up to the release she tried another reinvention--this time into a softer, more "user-friendly" Madonna. Though the album featured some of her best music, the media dumped on the "good girl" attempt and dredged up all the disasters of her "Sex Trilogy." Result: the album debuted high on the charts and sank fast...
...final analysis, falls considerably short of sainthood. Hall's behavior toward each of her long-term partners when she fell in love with someone else was unpleasant, to say the least: it's tacky by any standards to start dating your lover's nurse while she's laid up in the hospital. Hall was also a possessive and controlling lover, a consistently neglectful parent to Una Troubridge's young daughter Andrea, a lifelong aristocrat and elitist, and a political conservative whose early allegiances swayed toward fascism and anti-Semitism--none of them traits are precisely endearing to a modern audience...
...Everything was laid out beforehand as to what was going to be shown," she said...
Bridges perfectly captures the Dude's most essential quality: he's a happy man. No matter what insane complications the Coen brothers toss in his path, Bridges navigates his character through the knotty story with a remarkable laid back cool. He's so comfortable in this character that it's easy to forget that he's acting, even though it's not easy to pull off a performance as utterly nonchalant as this...
...Mary's graduate Olivia E. Ralston '99,a Crimson editor, takes issue with the perceptionthat single-sex education changes the way womenperform in an academic setting. Ralston says thatalthough attending a women's school provided herwith a quality education, academic achievementswere not laid out before...