Word: lip
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When the music stops, Sinatra sags, but luckily that isn't very often. Casnoff lip-synchs more than 20 classic Sinatra recordings, from early Big Band numbers to '60s hits like That's Life. Director James Sadwith uses the music shrewdly and liberally, often as background for narrative montages (You Make Me Feel So Young accompanies his courtship of Mia Farrow). It's the most lavishly entertaining TV movie of the year...
Unfortunately, the issue of school choice received little attention from the presidential candidates this fall. From the lip service that it has been paid, we do know that President Bush has consistently supported the idea of vouchers. President-elect Clinton supports the idea of school choice, but doesn't believe public funding should finance private school education...
...times is gradually emerging from the tests and observations. He was a fit man, between 25 and 35, about 1.6 m (5 ft. 2 in.) tall -- which was short even in his day -- and weighed around 50 kg (110 lbs.). Though his nose had been crushed and his upper lip folded by the weight of ice, it is clear that he had well-formed facial features that would not draw stares from contemporary Tyroleans. Says South Tyrolean archaeologist Hans Notdurfter: "He looks like one of our well-tanned ancestors...
...ancillary problem. "The focus was on disease. Pain was merely a marker of disease," says Dr. Kathleen M. Foley, pain-service chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. To some degree, this attitude simply reflected the bias of a culture that prizes the stiff upper lip: no pain, no gain...
...European Community, which pour substantial resources into education, have already caught up with and surpassed the U.S. in the quality of their workers, and the trend will continue. In America a growing, uneducated, unemployable and mostly minority underclass will put increasing pressure on society to pay more than lip service to education...