Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the century he almost spanned, Olivier the actor displayed turbulent energy, embraced awesome excess; his genius and his folly fed each other spectacularly. Said Albert Finney, who in 1959 understudied Olivier as Coriolanus: "He makes the climaxes higher, and he makes the depths of it lower, than you feel is possible in the text...
...swimwear is revealing less, not more, of the skin and using an array of design and construction tricks to camouflage body flaws. Higher necklines and underwire bras help disguise a large bust; ruffles and other upper-body froufrous distract from a small one. Lower-cut legs and flirty little skirts divert attention from big hips and thighs, while high waistlines, belts and stomach-control panels are doing their bit to hide the belly...
...Using a bit of verbal camouflage, Body Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like heavy thighs, tummy bulge and wide hips." A Gottex suit that covers up lower-abdomen paunch with a strategically placed cummerbund has drawn more than 15,000 orders through the Spiegel catalog alone...
...life groups, energized by the hope of overturning Roe, and pro-choice forces, galvanized by fear of that prospect, vow to turn every election in every state into a referendum on the issue. Both sides claim the moral high ground, but the battle surely will be fought at a lower -- much lower -- level. One side accuses the other of baby killing, showing pictures of fetuses contorted in pain as surgical instruments poke at them; the other warns of the enslavement of women by states if they force those who become pregnant to remain that...
...uncle, the New York lawyer, likes to threaten with lawsuits. "This food in front of me stinks...LAWSUIT!...I've got a cramp in my lower leg from sitting in this tiny seat...LAWSUIT!...This bearded man next to me just took off his shirt and he stinks...LAWSUIT...