Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people think but don't have the guts to say," observes oil-field supervisor Mark Hulin. "We're all middle-class people who are tired of paying taxes for all those people who don't want to better themselves." The Duke phenomenon, a volatile mix of race, class and plain rage, will not simply disappear. He may even challenge George Bush in next year's Republican primaries...
...only a matter of time. After blowing off California during his first two years in the White House, Bush has lately turned to blowing it kisses. He has assured Californians how much he enjoys visiting them, telling a Los Angeles audience in September that his wife Barbara "likes, just plain likes coming out to California." And he vows to keep coming back...
Stern also coaches a Little League team in Jamaica Plain during the baseball season...
ANTONIA & JANE. Chic Antonia, plain Jane. These young Englishwomen are "friends," with all the baggage -- competition, envy, bonding and bondage -- that the word carries. Marcy Kahan's witty script sees all men as dolts, and director Beeban Kidron sees all camera angles as cute, but you could still enjoy this wry, desperate comedy of '90s sisterhood...
...America is starting to kiss off its infatuation with marijuana. The National Institute on Drug Abuse says the number of weed smokers dropped one-third last year, to 20.5 million, from a 1979 high of 31.5 million. Reasons cited for the decline are rising prices, fewer supplies and the plain fact that it's just not cool anymore to use the stuff...