Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marriage penalty is a peculiar "tax" levied mainly on married couples in which the husband and wife have similar incomes. Once relatively rare, pay parity in two-earner homes has become fairly common in the '90s--and there's the rub. Such households often pay more federal income tax married than if the two earners had remained single and just moved in together. How's that for Uncle Sam walking in on your love life...
...upcoming Andy Kaufman film, to be directed by Milos Forman, will rub Carrey's nose in some of these issues. Late in his career, Kaufman orchestrated increasingly bizarre spectacles--onstage fights, misogynistic wrestling matches--in which audiences (not to mention friends and colleagues) were kept in the dark as to what was real and what was an act. "That's why he's such a comedian's comedian," Carrey says. "He never let anybody in on the joke. That's our sickness--the audience has to know we're kidding, otherwise they won't like us. That...
...Tests showed that the malignancy had spread to her lymph nodes. Bradfield got the works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls, "I went to rub my neck, and there was a tumor about the size of a marshmallow." Bradfield was already depressed--her daughter had just died in a car accident--and she never wanted to face chemo again. "I thought I was probably going to die, and I didn't want to die bald...
...clear that the constantly reversing worries were a signal that there was nothing to worry about. Bearing that out are stock market gains averaging 31% a year since 1995. One day there will actually be a problem, and rates will move up to crush inflation or down to rub out a recession. Either way, stocks will take a beating at some point in the cycle. But we're not there now. Inflation is asleep. You can almost hear it snore. There's just no reason for Greenspan to push rates higher. He knows it, and that...
...equally eventful. After playing tackle football in the morning, seven of us drove to a toga party sponsored by Todd and Brian's fraternity chapter at Penn State. The party featured live goldfish to swallow, and brothers passing around "Gold Bond," a powder which both guys and girls rub on their crotches to obtain a tingling feeling. (Unfortunately, refusing to try it, I can't verify the experience...