Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House, for the polls--and that was over on Capitol Hill, where the members are so distracted that there was little legislative action this year--the most prominent was renaming National Airport for Ronald Reagan. Newt Gingrich has had to arbitrate between conservatives who can't wait to sink their teeth into Clinton's soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr's findings would warrant impeachment. That quickly gave...
...plot is painfully obvious. We know everything that will happen 15 minutes before it does. Granted, this may be excusable--in a film about the Titanic, we know the ship has to sink and that almost everybody will die. Nevertheless, the dialogue did not need to be so banal. At times, I found myself mouthing lines along with the characters...
When I reached my hotel room I discovered that the hot water in the tub would not turn on, and the cold water would not turn off. The spout on the sinks was attached to a flexible pipe. To use the shower, I had to pull this spout from the sink to the bathtub where it hung on a hook...
...FRANCISCO: The governors were at the Internet gates this week, trying to sink their tax fangs into the smooth young neck of online commerce. And who should bar the door but President Clinton, who with a single speech ended months of hedging and called for passage this year of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which would impose a moratorium of up to five years on new taxes on electronic commerce and the Internet...
...artist John Bratby's love letters were put up by Sotheby's. Bratby, the Kitchen Sink school leader of the 1950s, had a hellzapoppin love affair with a much younger Diane Hills, to whom he wrote letters, as did Hills' father (less affectionately), as did Bratby's wife Jean Cooke (less affectionately still). "I understand from my husband," wrote Cooke, "the man with whom you fornicate on the floor of your flat..." All 25 boxes of the highly charged mess are now in some stranger's possession...