Word: swooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global market, and there will be more jobs created in Mexico than otherwise would have been the case," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. And the prospect of gradual improvement in the Mexican economy leads most analysts to discount the possibility that the peso's swoon will mean a sizable new surge of illegal immigrants pouring into...
...titles of her critical collections (I Lost It at the Movies, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Going Steady, Deeper into Movies, Reeling, When the Lights Go Down, Hooked, Movie Love) document her sumptuous passion for film. Her hyperactive intelligence wanted movies to speak up, move fast, go crazy, make her swoon. She needed pictures to do for her what her reviews did for her readers...
...first-year formal. Young love blooms, and couples swoon. Last Saturday night, a few of the hundreds of couples may have started relationships that will last a lifetime. More probably, by the time this magazine goes to press they will be eagerly awaiting the next Screw Your Roommate dance. And by the time they graduate, they will not even remember their dates' names...
...been written about Harvard's late-season swoon from a year ago. After winning the Beanpot over second-ranked BU, the Crimson faded to a 6-4-2 finish; not bad, but after a 16-2-1 start, Harvard fans expected and deserved better...
...With Spikes" (a simpler version of which came out late last year as the "advance single") is a witty, sad, reticent boy's version of a romantic breakdown: he begins by telling a girl that their future is up to her, and ends in a swoon of self-accusation: "A pit with spikes is what I'm bringing you, hon.../ I'm not so deep that I can't be swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds exactly like Prince (with a temporarily funked-up backbeat to match...