Word: tad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chomping boxer or a hard-luck farmer, Jackson generally doesn't mind offering up a little private prayer and some public words of encouragement. Of course, when you're Geoffrey Fieger, the man infamously known as Dr. Death's lawyer, getting even a nod from Jackson becomes a tad more complicated...
...sleek Startac phone has long been the envy of every mobile exec saddled with a larger, less attractive cell phone. Early next year, Motorola will give folks something new to covet: its V-series phone (approximately $500 to $600) will be a tad shorter, 25% narrower and a third lighter than the Startac. The best news: the V-series' talk time reaches a comfortable 160 min., with up to 160 hr. of standby...
...decades, as countless teams struggled within the architectural marvel, nobody cared that one aspect--the football field--was a tad askew...
Sleep, vegetative unconsciousness, surrender of the will--Burne-Jones' art was largely about passivity, and his knights look a tad sluggish even when they are skewering dragons. He idolized Michelangelo--the year 1871 found Burne-Jones flat on his back on a traveling rug in the Sistine Chapel, minutely scrutinizing the ceiling with opera glasses--and comatose versions of the Slaves and Captives abound in his work. The dream-suffused character of the art of Burne-Jones won him a following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian...
Though the Getty Center in Los Angeles has been rightly described as a masterpiece, it is coming up a tad short in the amenities department. Already reported has been its lack of bathrooms--wags have suggested that when visitors call to reserve parking spaces at the museum, they should also be permitted to make reservations for one of the few rest rooms--but there are other problems as well. On sunny days the brightness of the light on the mountaintop location is exacerbated by the reflection from architect RICHARD MEIER's tan aluminum panels on the outside of the building...