Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since a Washington Post series on her husband last winter depicted her as a power-mad spouse who once kicked to shreds a framed picture of her husband playing golf, Mrs. Quayle has been trying to soften her Cruella De Vil image. She is cooler in interviews and slower to anger. She proudly announces that she saves money by shopping monthly at the Price Club and that her kids come home and eat tuna "right out of the can." Normally careful to shield her children from public scrutiny, she now admits the abortion gaffe was unfortunate and "embarrassing...
...getting fed up with being Mr. Sensitive. " I've read the Hite report," he tells us; he's even okay with Victoria's bisexuality But he can't help feeling that her telling him what she wants during sex is "like a driving lesson--left, right, faster, slower...." Enough said: she's out of there. She moves in with Lynn, and is eventually joined by Edward, who has broken up with his lover. The three of them all sleep in the same bed. Is everybody happy now? Of course they...
...smoke-filled party given by High Times, a magazine devoted to legalizing marijuana. The debut front-page piece, "The Arm Fetish," which analyzed "the body part as fashion accessory," was followed by others on "The Lipstick Wars" and health clubs (they're popular). Like an American abroad speaking slower and louder to be understood, the type is extra large and the sentences are extra short. The overall effect is of a grandmother squeezing into neon biking shorts after everyone else has moved on to long black skirts; the Saks Fifth Avenue ad Styles replaces was hipper. The section is evolving...
...also fortunate to have a devoted director who was willing to stay with me after rehearsal and go over the steps at my slower pace. "You want me to iump. Kick and land how." I would ask her. She would just smile and show me the step again for the umpteenth time...
Because when you're running for office, you have to hunt where the ducks are. And the ducks believe foreign investment hurts America. One 1990 poll revealed that 86 percent of those Americans surveyed said they would rather see slower growth in both Japan and U.S. and than faster growth in both countries with Japan in the lead...