Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...richest rookie contract in history. Football's rebel enhanced his hip image by sporting a gold earring and blond Mohawk haircut. The athletic career of "the Boz," however, was as short-lived as it was meteoric. He retired at 25, sidelined by a shoulder injury. He segued into a quieter career, acting. In January he will star in Lawless, a new private-detective series set in South Beach. Says he: "I am very much an extrovert when it comes to being in the spotlight. I need that attention to kind of rev my motor...
While alcohol sales once contributed the lion's share of profits, Poulos says he raised prices on drinks to establish a quieter dining atmosphere...
...central performance," concedes Collins director Neil Jordan. "And Liam carries the film through like a train. He never stops." To be sure, Collins provides Neeson with a lot of big scenes in which to holler and pound tables and make like a potential Academy Award winner, but the quieter moments are his most impressive ones. For example, in a scene in which Collins meets with a housemaid who has agreed to do some spying for him, Neeson throws her the kind of gently flirtatious smile that convinces us of Collins' charismatic energy in but an instant...
...efficiently, the power train will produce what is, by EPA standards, "zero emissions." According to the Rosens, the turbo-flywheel combination will at least double the gas mileage of the car in which it is used, produce a satisfying sound not unlike that of a Lear Jet (albeit far quieter), and push a Mercedes-Benz from 0 to 60 in a tidy six seconds flat, 0.6 seconds faster than Mercedes...
...late afternoon sky is as solemn as it was in the morning. The town is quieter than yesterday. Tonight people will begin to wean themselves from the disaster reports and tune in to the excessively happy opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta. Flipping between channels, they will occupy antipodal worlds. Come the weekend, they will take their boats out on the bay, and eventually they will speak less and less of Wednesday night...