Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...count on?") or the self- absorption of their husbands ("Cuddling? There's hell on earth. How do you know when you're done?") A gay male art pornographer and a lesbian ex-con, gurus to dimwit straights, induce a conservative presidential hopeful to striptease, his wife to pose naked and their daughter to leave Junior League matronhood for lesbian passion. All their problems are solved at once. It seems we have seen this play before: back then it was called Hair, or maybe Oh! Calcutta...
Specifically, Albright mentioned regional conflicts--North Korea, Haiti, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union--which "if not well-managed ,could pose threats to the innermost circle of American concerns...
Yesterday morning, for example, he joined hundreds of his classmates on the steps of Widener Library to pose for a class picture...
...charging a single premium, regardless of age, gender, income or medical condition. Over the past two decades, however, "experience rating" has become more popular. It enables insurance companies to "cream skim" low-risk groups and offer them modest premiums, then "cherry pick" the people within that group who pose high health risks and either raise their policy costs or deny them coverage. The result is so unfair that 40 states have restricted or prohibited the practice. "What you end up with," says Henry Bachofer, chief lobbyist for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, "is that people with very high...
...attempt at striking the distanced ironic pose that cultural commentators seem convinced is a hall mark of this mysterious generation, OK touts itself in small letters as "a carbonated 'beverage,'" with the last word in quotes--the hipsters who make "OK," one assumes, are too cool to use that technical word with a straight face. The slogan completes the pitch--no hi-strung shrill jingos here--"Everything is going...