Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When does the extra $4 I spend on dinner become the extra $50 I spend on shoes which becomes the extra $300 I spend on a weekend trip or a new stereo? I'm on a slippery slope and I've already taken the first step--now the downward slide may be inevitable...
...find the perfect sweater at a vintage store in the dollar box. It's more satisfying to find a fabulous cheap restaurant than be a hipster at the latest over-priced hot spot. It's nice to cook, boil water and make pasta sauce. I don't want to slide down the slippery slope. I don't want to be the proper Harvard graduate and get the right kind of job and eat at the right restaurants and drink the right vodka and have the right brand of handbag. I do not want to have changed...
...voices, echoing and harmonizing, "moving and grooving," with serenity in several tunes. The faster music and louder voice of Marley is substituted with romantic sounds and very tranquil moods. Experimental scales and variations prove Marley's command of the music realm. Even some instrumentals similar to Creedence Clearwater slide through in "Black Progress...
...years the sports market has been dominated by baseball, basketball, football and hockey. But lately those major sports have seen their TV ratings slide, even as the fees that the leagues charge the networks for broadcast rights have skyrocketed. We just watched--or didn't watch--the lowest-rated World Series in history. Monday Night Football audiences are down 10% compared with last season. The extra commercials that networks air to offset their higher costs have only prompted viewers to channel-surf more frequently away from the major sports. Big-salaried athletes with bad attitudes have been turning off fans...
Sounds good so far. The audience expects high tech and will probably let slide the fact that Todd is unconscious but remains uninjured after his stay in the garbage ship and the 500-foot fall he and the rest of the dumped garbage experience. The only visual or special effects worth mentioning, though, are the few panoramic shots of the barren planet littered with old scrap iron, cars and retired aircraft carriers. On a side note, those expecting chemistry between Todd and Sandra (Connie Nelson) should look elsewhere, Soldier gets an R rating solely because of old-fashioned graphic violence...