Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brian S. Yankee, the building's operations manager, said several fire engines responded to the alarm Friday afternoon but the fire caused only slight damage to plaster and walls...
Despite a slight pull in her quadricep, Elmuts will still play this weekend in flight A, one of the most competitive of the four singles flights...
Finally, there has been a sign that the 1992 presidential campaign will find relevance after all. Between the Republican Convention and Labor Day, the traditional start of the general election contest, odds of that happening seemed slight. George Bush and his minions seemed fixated on "family values," Bill Clinton's draft record and a deceptive numbers game over tax increases in Arkansas. The Democrats sounded on the verge of declaring class warfare -- trying to scare the elderly, veterans and students with unfounded charges that Bush would savage programs on which they depend. But suddenly last Thursday, Bush jerked attention away...
...interviewed a number of career civil servants (and let me digress to say that if you have a lot of talent and ambition and want to victimize yourself in an occupation with inadequate pay--but have rejected elementary school teaching because it has some slight shred of respect--then the civil service is for you), and these people, many of whom actually run entire agencies, took me seriously. Truly gifted interns for whom truth is no handicap will find that worthwhile political connections are only a few business cards away...
Biography usually quests for an existence that makes a difference. Dean's specialty was indifference. He did decent work in a few good movies (Some Came Running, Rio Bravo), but passed through others with slight effect, like the gentle baritone rumbling of a distressed stomach. His TV show was flash encircling stupor: the Golddigger chorines did their cooch; the cue-card girl had the script written on her bare midriff. And in the middle, so laid-back as to be supine, was Dino -- on the cutting edge of lumpen-American mediocrity...