Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack of experiment and soul searching in these years. While Warhol was spinning out his sops to celebrities in sycophantic portraits and the swooning talkfests that filled his gossip sheet Interview, much of American art seemed largely earnest--as if it were a vast machine spitting out proof after proof of the solution to what art should mean as war, protest, the surge of feminism and the pulse of disco played themselves out on the nation's stage...
...COMMERCE WATCHDOG Here's further proof that online shopping isn't all it's cracked up to be: of over three dozen newly rated websites listed on Consumer Reports Online at CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, only Amazon.com wins top honors for "a very satisfying shopping experience." Rated by the five-point system used in the print magazine, the site evaluates e-merchants based on content, usability and policies. Lillian Vernon's catalog site is labeled "inconvenient" and "tedious," while the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut site gets dinged for its "poorly cross-referenced search engine." Just so-so sites include Victoria's Secret, Frederick...
...James Bond himself is set at odds with his style of movie-making. 007 is a man of simple pleasures and simple motivations; get the girl, save the world. Sure, he uses expensive gadgets and blows up expensive things, but these are just tools of his imperturbable savoir faire, proof that he has no compunction eliminating whatever obstacles are in his way. The whole point of James Bond, at least as drawn up by Ian Flemming and fleshed out by Sean Connery, is that no matter what's thrown at him, he maintains his ultimate unflappability, his killer charm...
...crafty, the Man is slick, but there are always signals when you're dealing with the Man. Here's a fool-proof guide for spotting him in your every day interactions...
...seller list. In his memoir Foley relates how he overcame broken bones, a lost ear and a worthy opponent named "the Rock" to win the World Wrestling Federation belt last year. The book's swift sales--this is only its second week on the Times's list--offer incontrovertible proof that wrestling fans can read a work longer than a tattoo...