Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother Melanie turned to Kerri's father in the stands and said, "Oh, my gosh, something's wrong." Burt Strug tried to reassure her that it was just a charley horse. Strug's coach, Bela Karolyi--a camera-hogging cheerleader throughout the competition--shouted encouragement as Strug tried to shake off the pain. Actually, Strug's score of 9.162 was enough to ensure the U.S. victory, making a second vault unnecessary. But no one on the team knew that. "We had no idea what the score was," said co-head coach Mary Lee Tracy. "What...
...trimming the fat from bloated production budgets. So many weak little plot lines criss-cross and entangle as surely as extension cords that we wish that one of Bannister's friends, a refugee from the 70's, would appear so that we could grab his ample lapels and shake some sense into the movie...
...others, the shake-out in IPO prices could signal a return to sanity that will strengthen the market over the long run. "There was rampant speculation this spring that needed to be dampened," says Robert Natale, who directs research on new issues at Standard & Poor's. Perhaps IPO investors will learn, as Buzz Lightyear did, that there is life even after the bubble bursts. --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York
Moviemakers don't need to conquer the aliens. They control the screen. And when they do it well, they control us, as cunningly as an ID4 alien running a mind scan on a puny Earthling. Only after the lights come up can we shake off the fear, say, "It's only a movie," and steal an anxious glance at the night...
ANTONIN SCALIA Ginsburg's old pal can't shake habit of caustic dissents. Exhibit A: May's gay-rights ruling...