Word: lows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...portions of President Clinton's remarks about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Layered over a throbbing techno beat, the President could be heard intoning, "What I'm just trying to do is contain my natural impulses and get back to work," as models wearing revealing slip dresses, camisoles and low-cut blouses sashayed down the runway. Later in the show, which she dedicated to her mother Linda, McCartney returned to a more traditional sound track with a rendition of Hey Jude. Asked after the show how she would clothe Lewinsky, McCartney replied, "Probably in a dress, and preferably one that...
...were often members of the militant antiabortion group Operation Rescue, which had a strong presence in the city. But as home schooling infiltrates the wider culture, the wider culture is starting to infiltrate home schooling. Many of the newest home schoolers are not religious. And home schooling, with its low cost, is attracting growing numbers of children who have been expelled from public school...
...growth of Vegas began, totally unregulated, all but unzoned, producing a monotonous checkerboard of shopping centers, low-rise apartment buildings, trailer parks and (of late) fenced and gated pseudo communities--with, in the middle, the glitz palaces devoted to gambling, or, as Nevada officialdom prefers to call it, "gaming," which sounds a little tonier...
...Vegas? Demographics. The target audience is now 50 and ready to travel without the kids. "Imagine," says Circus Circus president Glenn Schaeffer, "somebody will turn 49 every 13 seconds for the next 15 years, and they have the highest household income and the fastest spending rate." Circus pioneered the low-end family concept during the late 1970s and made it work for more than a decade. But Schaeffer was brought in after a management shakeup to arrest declining numbers...
...Leonard Bernstein, I believe I have a fairly discerning ear. And that ear could hardly tell the difference between the Altec-Lansings and the no-brand speaker that comes on most laptops. I'm not sure, really, who'd use them; the sound on my demo model was too low-fidelity (and the volume just too low, even cranked up to high) for the PC to pass as a CD player...