Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think about this stuff than the average John Q. All Too Public. A few years ago, for instance, after I applied for a credit card at a consumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. That somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it with steely digital dispatch. (I filed a short report over the phone. I never lost a cent...
Nevertheless, the worm has already begun to turn again. Last winter, Whitehead expanded her essay into a book, The Divorce Culture, and all hell broke loose. A New York Times reviewer dubbed Whitehead's treatise a "self-blame book" and mocked its scholarship. Esquire magazine ran the bold-face cover line DIVORCE IS GOOD FOR YOU. In the New York Times, essayist Katha Pollitt took on the new Louisiana law that created "covenant marriage," a more binding vow that can be ended only because of extreme circumstances. "You don't have to be abused or betrayed," Pollitt declared, "to have...
...melodrama was set in Burlington, N.C., a small town about 20 miles from Greensboro, where Dorothy Hutelmyer was twice president of the PTA, her husband Joseph coached baseball and ran Seaboard Underwriters, and Lynne Cox worked as his secretary. The Hutelmyers' was "a storybook marriage," says Dorothy's lawyer Jim Walker. "He wrote poetry to her, love songs...
...make every mark, remember every line and, between scenes, rush from one set to another without tripping over the miles of fat camera cable. Coe had to keep it all moving smoothly, cue the camera for commercials (shot live in the same studio) and, if the show ran long or short, cut or expand scenes on the spot. If a camera broke down, no problem--Coe would ad-lib a restaging of the show...
...annoyed but not surprised that you ran a picture of Versace on your cover. The better thing would have been to show Cunanan's other victims. Once again the media sent the message that if you have money, your life is valued more than if you are a working-class person. ROBIN LUEDDEKE Kenilworth...