Word: spate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phone calls a day from worried drivers and passengers who want to shut off or disable the safety devices. "When we take the time to explain how to use them properly," he says, "the vast majority [of callers] regain their comfort with air bags." However, the recent spate of publicity has taken its toll on public confidence. Declared a bystander outside the safety agency's news conference: "They're letting us disconnect them? Great. I don't want to be killed...
...Grass Harp. "He'd listen to my directions. However, at any time, if so ordered, I'd put on a sweater." Such are the compromises one has to make as the offspring and the director of a star parent. Still, it can't be that horrid, since a spate of families have taken to the set together with happy results. NICK CASSAVETES wrote and directed Unhook the Stars as a "love letter" to his mom GENA ROWLANDS, and, he says, "she sent me one with her amazing performance." Meanwhile, EMILIO ESTEVEZ directed and starred with dad MARTIN SHEEN...
There are two ways of looking at the recent spate of out-of-conference collapses...
Have the nation's teachers lost their minds? The spate of news stories would have you think so. Maybe Bob Dole was on to something when he blamed the people who mind our ABCs for everything that's wrong in the schools. Certainly, it does look absurd to treat Advil as the gateway to addiction and a seven-year-old's clumsy mauling as sexual harassment...
...longer provocative enough, it seems, for underwear models simply to stand around seminaked, looking thin and winsome. A spate of recent ads and fashion spreads suggests that what marketers believe really moves merchandise is the intimation that the underpants are on their way off. And for these models, unlike the little girl in the pioneering Coppertone ads, tan lines...