Word: tailoring
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...devastated the breakaway region, killed hundreds of civilians and fighters, and created more than 300,000 refugees, Yeltsin's declaration seemed more vacuous than victorious. General Jokhar Dudayev, the Chechen separatist leader, remained at large, and his fighters have vowed to continue their struggle in a mountainous country tailor-made for guerrilla warfare...
Sergei Oblomov (Marcello Mastroianni), a sinister Russian tailor, is Mme, de la Fontaine's long-lost first husband, inexplicably sneaking through the most stylish closets in town until they are reunited. Loren pays homage to the couple's steamy screen history with a reenactment of a striptease she last performed for Mastroianni in 1964. We should all look this good in garters when we're sixty-something...
...bedrock of consistency; Zhirinovsky prefers to confect his views from the moods and passions of his audience. He has a talent for timing the rhythm of his harangues to the emotional heartbeats of those around him. How, then, would the man who may become Russia's next President tailor his message to America, a country that is a catch basin of his harshest invective...
...Democrats are hoping that election-eve efforts to drum up fear of GOP Social Security cuts are tailor-made for Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Harris Wofford, who's slipped well behind Republican Rep. Rick Santorum, 35 percent to 46 percent, among likely voters in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/WTAE-TV poll. In a state with an elderly population percentage second only to Florida's, Santorum recently suggested the Social Security retirement age be boosted from 65 to 70 or higher; a Wofford campaign worker videotaped the remark, which is now the centerpiece in a new ad blitz.Post to 1994 Elections...
...years, the rating board's chief arbiter of explosives and orifices was Richard Heffner, routinely described as one of Hollywood's most powerful men because the Stones and Scorseses had to tailor their visions to his stern standards. He recently retired from the job and was succeeded by Richard Mosk, 55, a prominent Los Angeles lawyer whose father is a justice of the California Supreme Court. This month Mosk's rating board slapped two Miramax films with an NC-17. On the basis of these decisions, the Heffner era may soon be regarded as an age of enlightenment...