Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could not be determined whether the new condom machines affected sales at local convenience stores where condoms are also sold. But at CVS Pharmacy on Massachusetts Avenue, sales were unusually slow this weekend, an employee said...
...occasional Unsolved Mysteries specials, for instance, have presented similar crime re-enactments (and helped catch five suspects). But doubtless, what makes America's Most Wanted the highest-rated show on the Fox network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with the appearance of actual witnesses and victims (some of whom have even participated...
Little wonder that the Soviet press, which has been allowed to report politically sensitive news with increasing candor, was slow to discover the Polish unrest and even then used the pre-glasnost device of pinning it on "Western anti-Polish centers." For its part, the Reagan Administration deplored the Warsaw government's use of violence. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that the unrest in Poland could be a "point for discussion" at the upcoming Moscow summit but that he did not expect it to cause "significant damage...
...with music. Has there ever been a songwriter like Berlin? Play a simple melody, he wrote, and he has: about 1,500 songs, show tunes and standards, ragtime and ballads, slow wistful waltzes and brisk up-tempo two- steps, reveries and reveilles. I love a piano, he sang, and have man and instrument ever been more symbiotic, the one giving voice to the other...
Jackson devoted part of his week to campaigning in California, where he plans a costly and intensive effort to slow Dukakis' drive toward the nomination...