Word: stiff
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Orrin Hatch can play with your head. As stiff as his white-collared shirts, a Rocky Mountain version of American Gothic, the Mormon Senator nonetheless makes nice with the Beltway Philistines. He flirts, brags endlessly about the Utah Jazz, fights Jesse Helms on his anti-aids legislation and is pals with Ted Kennedy. He writes love songs to his wife during long committee hearings and recorded an album of hymns, although he says he doesn't go crooning religious songs along the Potomac, as his good friend Ken Starr does. But that's one of the few ways in which...
...will be allowed to convert an existing IRA to a Roth, and you can wait until you file your tax return to revert to the old IRA penalty free. That means that if you expect to be just under the income limit, you can convert now without fear of stiff penalties should you find that you miscalculated...
...exception: In the Line of Fire. Give Wolfgang Petersen his due for making a solid American thriller and casting Fred Thompson to boot. And if, like me, you found Clint Eastwood a little old and stiff to leaping about on rooftops, think of it this way: He?s supposed to be stiff, at least -? he?s a Secret Service agent. And he does...
Fueled by stiff winds, the flames have jumped from treetop to treetop in a landscape made hospitable by a severe drought. Flames even shoot up through tree roots. Rotting vegetation sparks without warning, creating idiosyncratic wind patterns. Conflagrations then skip over bulldozed firebreaks and highways. "The fires make such rapid advances that it's not feasible to put men in there," says Steve Parsons of the Florida emergency-management agency. "We've got to get those long-term rains to get some moisture in the ground." Last week the Governor asked the state to pray for rain. The prayers...
...filled with hundreds of empty beer cans all conscientiously rinsed and crushed (when crankers decide to clean house, they clean house), Jennifer and her roommates smoke and jabber while clock hands turn from 3 to 4 to 5. The oldest roommate--his fortyish, gaunt face so stiff and lifeless it looks taxidermied--veers from a fond recollection of a camping trip to a paranoid rant about "hidden cameras" and warnings to TIME's photographer and reporter that "we know how to protect ourselves in this house...