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Word: soft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they sit crosslegged, eyes closed, arms rested on their knees, palms open, a soothing voice offers guidance: "The arms are open. Imagine the infinite space and time and light which are held there. The belly is soft and open and expansive. As you continue, notice what happens to the breath. And then just sit and allow the breath to flow. Let it feel blissful and free, like a wave...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Stressed-Out Learn to Relax Through Yoga | 3/2/1991 | See Source »

Joseph S. Nye, speaking on "hard" and "soft" power in a recent edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, before the ground war began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 3/1/1991 | See Source »

...Bart Simpson.) She has not been heard from since the bombing began. By and large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests for soft and sentimental songs. When it heats up, we slow down." Army Private Brian Chavez, 18, of Wagner, Okla., worries about being out of touch. "There will be all new music when we go back," he moans. "There'll be a new way of dancing. We will look like dorks, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life on The Line | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...other extreme were the boring "Ennui Comes, Off We Go" and the pointless "Put Some Rhythm in Your Method." In the latter, Ducey's Shelby, who strikes us as a poor imitation of "Woody" on Cheers, does a soulless soft-shoe routine to win Heidi's heart. And although Safari Sagoodi contains mercifully little gratuitous sexism compared to recent Pudding shows, the "Heidi's Chronicle" number--in which the dumb secretary laments that she can't find a man--strikes us as questionable...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: HPT 143 Safari Sagoodi Is Pretty Darn Goodi | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

...Hollywood's taste for melodrama, you could see Clarice as an apt emblem of women in American movies. Patronized and endangered. Deemed too small, too soft to show muscle at the box office. Working -- or, more often, not working -- at the whim of the men who make the movies. According to the Screen Actors Guild, only 29.1% of all feature-film roles in 1989 went to women. The average male SAG member earned 60% more than the average female; of actors in their 50s, men earned 150% more. "It looks to me as though females get hired along procreative lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

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