Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinds of behavior that will allow them to pull themselves out. Clinton was brave to talk about the values underlying his recent welfare reform legislation not only because of his own imperfections, but because it is difficult for concerned politicians to address these issues without sliding down the slope of political posturing and rhetoric...
...theater is a cozy space built right inside what used to be the basin of the pool. Old lecture hall seats, minus the fold-up desks, are placed neatly down a slope to the deep end. The entire theatre, including the stage, is elevated about four feet above the pool floor by a system of wooden beams (I peeked under a trap door); this hollow, thin stage helped four slim girls with tap shoes register a 6.0 on the Richter scale in the first scene. The remnants of the pool are beautiful: an old sloped roof gives the feeling...
Publishers have barreled down the same cynical, slippery slope. Not so long ago, readers of autobiographies were meant to understand that Sammy Davis or William Paley actually produced his memoir. About a decade ago, the pretense was dropped and ghostwriters' names went onto book jackets; nobody minded. Now comes an extraordinary new stage in this postmodern devolution: works of fiction that the nominal celebrity authors not only didn't write but that publishers and celebrities admit they didn't write...
...nearby office, a man wielding a knife -- a man he had no opportunity to identify -- forced the door open and pushed him into the passenger's seat. A second man jumped into the back and put a noose around his throat. Blindfolded, Weinstein was driven to a secluded slope underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and forced into the muddy cave 8 ft. underground where he would spend the next 293 hours. A Marine veteran who still plays singles tennis three times a week, Weinstein was not afraid of the physical challenge...
...world's largest indoor ski slope has no up-close competition from nature -- and that explains the excitement over it. SSAWS, which stands for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow, is a $366.9 million building shaped like a giant mechanical centipede whose highest hump reaches 25 stories. On opening day two weeks ago, hundreds of summer skiers, eager to escape muggy Tokyo, lined up for the first runs down the slopes. Regular, outdoor Japanese slopes are notoriously crowded -- and SSAWS is likely to be as well when it is fully operational. However, SSAWS is only 30 min. from Tokyo Station...