Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday's The Power of Beauty (HarperCollins; 589 pages; $27.50) can make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author's analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in. What do I look like perusing this book? Am I envious of younger women whose toned arms could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way--from my mother...
...what means would Tigrett employ to help lift humankind to a higher consciousness, to inspire a new generation of truth seekers? Theme restaurants...
...being tailed by a hired killer. The murder, the assassin decides, will take place when his target drives back to the monastery where he has been staying. Feigning engine trouble along the route, he waits for the old man to stop, then approaches as if to ask for a lift, pulls out a pistol and is fatally shot twice in the chest by the man he planned to kill...
Seagram's ad is p.r. heaven: spend a few bucks on an incendiary TV spot, then let the media spread the word. The industry needs the lift: sales of cases of distilled spirits, according to M. Shanken Communications, shrank from 190 million in 1980 to 135 million in 1995--a drop of 29%. Beer and wine marketers, meanwhile, exploiting the mistaken perception that their products contain less alcohol than distilled spirits, used such icons as Spuds MacKenzie and the Swedish Bikini Team to boost sales by even more than the distillers lost...
Mindful of the importance of "facts on the ground," the incoming Prime Minister vowed to lift four-year-old Labor-government restrictions on new or expanded Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. When exit surveys finally began to indicate a Netanyahu victory on election night, Yaakov Katz, chairman of the settlers' offshore radio station, whooped, "Everything will change! In 10 years there will be half a million Jews in Judea and Samaria," the biblical name for the West Bank. Settlement expansion is the most incendiary issue among the Palestinians, who view the settlers as robbers...