Word: savers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BABY SITTER. In movies as in life, this is the most traditional woman's role: hearth stirrer, home saver, raising her children and supporting her man. It ! was an emblem, we now realize, of her superiority. Modern man knows that modern woman can do the old, cool-guy stuff -- run a tractor, beat him at poker, light a cigarette in a high wind -- but that he can't manage, so artfully or efficiently, what women have done since the cave days. So there's nothing inherently retrograde about Dying Young, in which Julia Roberts performs bedside therapy on ailing Campbell...
...deal was a classic face saver. Fang acknowledged that in opposing a political system of class struggle he had violated China's constitution. He made a vague promise not to engage in activities contrary to China, though not necessarily contrary to its leadership...
...best fringe benefits of being President is getting regular and thorough medical examinations. In George Bush's case, it could prove to be an eye saver. The White House announced last week that his latest checkup had revealed a budding case of glaucoma in his left eye, a disease that can be $ controlled if caught early, but can otherwise lead to blindness. Bush thus joins some 2.5 million other Americans who suffer from this common problem, and his case underscores the value of discovering glaucoma before serious damage is done...
...buses are the life-saver for us," says Debbie L. Dreyfus, a junior at Wellesley. "They are really the only way to get off campus on the week-ends...