Word: shudder
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...usual salad of mad love, acrobatic sex and cross-dressing, and garnishes it with a chorus line in a women's prison. High Heels careers like a runaway circus train over the rickety trestle of melodrama. Between giggles at the absurdity of it all, you're welcome to shudder...
...recession," Norbert Walter, chief economist of the Deutsche Bank, says flatly, which means this will be "a year of recession in Europe." Other German experts, who shudder at the very word recession, say it has not arrived yet -- but is just around the corner. The country can console itself with the knowledge that its problems arise largely from its reabsorption of the former East Germany, where many of the old centrally directed enterprises stand idle and official unemployment nears 12% -- not counting another 2 million workers in part-time, make-work jobs. Few Germans seem steeped in the gloom that...
...Jews, we are especially sensitive to the fact that the pink triangle was the symbol that the Nazis used during the Holocaust to identify gays; we can only shudder to think of what our reactions to an exploding Star of David might...
...turns facts into ideas, entertainments, moral positions." But that doesn't mean a pre-eminent magazine journalist need be stuffy and serious. "To think that he's a no- nonsense guy is nonsense," says his colleague Paul Gray. "When suitably amused, he has an explosive laugh that could shudder a sycamore at 60 paces." Ideas, Morrow believes, are like people: "Some are charming, some are noble, some are ugly or stupid." He helps TIME tell the difference, and that means...
...month, up from 5.2% in June. All around the country, cities and states are contemplating new taxes and making painful cuts into budget funds for schools, police and other government services. Every time a bank totters or an S&L tumbles or an insurance company collapses into bankruptcy, a shudder goes through the nation. The old concerns about Bush's feckless approach to domestic issues are beginning to reappear. "The serious problems haven't been addressed," says Houston lawyer Patrick Dugan, a Bush supporter who usually votes Republican. "The deficit, S&Ls, plummeting real estate. People were scared during...