Word: neatness
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...United States, at its most basic level, works on the principle of More Stuff. Our economy runs because people buy stuff; if they don't buy stuff, everything grinds to a halt. While this is a great way to get a lot of neat things, the principle fails as a way of giving much philosophic meaning to our society...
...Amistad National Park in Costa Rica. Each hectare (2.5 acres) preserved, reads the sign, will save 500 butterflies, 200 orchids, 10,000 mushrooms, 20 frogs, half a parrot and a thousandth of a jaguar. The message seems to make a deep impression on budding environmentalists. "It's really neat," says Lily Lubin, 9, who persuaded her parents to part with some change. "It feels like every time I put a quarter in, I'm saving an animal's life...
...gospel septet, Goddess Gospel, and she plans to pursue a performing career in Boston and eventually New York. But Ryan hopes the group will stay together. "I love Wild Women and Cinnamon. I'm so happy to have these wonderful women to sing with." As Garber says, "It's neat that we can do so much because technically, we're all altos...
Obviously afraid that just such a reading might stick, Javier Perez de Cuellar, the U.N. Secretary-General, has played a neat card: he asked Saddam for permission to police a part of his country. That Perez de Cuellar received the disastrous and predictable answer to a question he should never have asked testifies either to the U.N.'s underlying unwillingness to do what is right, or to Perez de Cuellar's fecklessness...
...Giving her all to simulated masturbation in the Like a Virgin number. Blithely stripping for the camera. Calling Beatty a wimp (more or less) because he is sensibly shy of her camera. Recalling some erotic nurse play with a childhood girlfriend. Gagging when Kevin Costner says her show was "neat." Consummating an intimate relationship with a bottle of Vichy water. Two hours of dishing and dissing in relentless, bathroom-mirror closeup...