Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...character's alternate moods of ironic detachment and sincere (for him) emotion believable. Efron gives a smooth seductive performance reminiscent of the late great John Ducey '91. As Rosaline, Berowne's sometime lover, sometime persecutor. Emily Gardiner is a appropriately tough and saucy. Gardiner does not let her character slip into sentimentalism; this consistency is vital to making Rosaline's final actions understandable...
While it is possible that George Bush though Souter was the most qualified person for the job-his intelligent, moderate jurisprudence lends credibility to this theory-it is far more likely that he sought one of the least well-known conservative judges in the land so he could slip a right-wing Justice by the politicized den of vipers that await any nominee who enters the Senate caucus room...
...seat of a taxi in midtown Manhattan, trying to get out of her tight skirt, and then, when she has managed to do that, squirms again, trying to wiggle into a second, somewhat tighter skirt. She succeeds, but the new skirt leaves no room for lingerie. Off come half-slip and panties. She leaves them on the taxi floor, with the old skirt. At her destination, as she pays the cabby, he nods at the new skirt. "Whatdja do, steal...
...ultimate medical nightmare. You slip under the anesthesia confident that your problem will be solved with some simple procedure -- a polyp excision, for example, or tubal ligation. But when you wake up you find your breasts are missing or your intestine now terminates in a plastic bag. Too bad we had the wrong patient, the surgeons shrug, because the operation went beautifully...
...Easter recess begins April 2. Many legislators may question why any stimulus is needed. Latest figures show national production shot up at an annual rate of 4.8% in the fourth quarter of 1992. The Administration, however, insists that a stimulus package is needed as an insurance policy against a slip back into recession...