Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contagion has been a kind of object lesson in the risks of the new economics, and many developing nations are paying more attention to their policies. Says a Treasury official: "It was awfully hard to tell the Thais they had something to worry about when they were growing at 8% a year. They're a lot more attentive now." Greenspan and Rubin hope they can turn that attention into the kind of reforms that will make these emerging markets closer to ideal. Among the top priorities: cleaner international banking systems, transparent lending practices and more open markets. As soon...
Breasts have never really gone away, as any two-month-old or longtime viewer of certain premium cable channels will tell you. And yet a heightened fascination with things bosomy seems to have infected the world of men's magazines--the general-interest sort, I mean. This is largely due to Maxim, the British import, which, in its year-and-a-half of American existence, has shaken the world of cigar love and five steps to great...
...category down. "Is civilization really coming to an end? Come on, you can get pictures of women and donkeys on the Internet." Well, yes. And seen on a newsstand crowded with stuff like Barely Legal, Maxim's PG-13 naughtiness comes off as charming, even sweet. But don't tell the magazine's readership of wannabe bad boys. The word might be deflating...
...Vere led, an existence more Shakespearean than Shakespeare's! Of the man from Stratford we have only a sheaf of facts slimmer than a Gospel redacted by atheists. He is a man about whom it is impossible to write the literary biography as we know it today--kiss, tell, stab in the back, keep the codpiece, and don't dry-clean the doublet. And thus De Vere tantalizes. He may not have been the Bard, but--with apologies to whomever--was his life the stuff of which Shakespeare's dreams were made...
...Rockets have an entire future wing of the Hall of Fame, but unfortunately, that future is very near. Charles Barkley, 35, who huffs and puffs alongside Hakeem Olajuwon and ex-Bull Scottie Pippen, can tell you what it's like to get old: "I don't think I can have sex three days in a row. Not good sex, anyway." And on that note, Happy Valentine's Day from...