Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...familiar as she was with the ways of Foggy Bottom, she was also going where no woman had gone before: into an office with its own gray marble bathroom outfitted "for the boys," she says, with suit racks and a long column of small, thin sock drawers. Her time is treated as a precious commodity, and she is learning shortcuts. Did Warren Christopher have any tips on how to save time with her personal routine? "He can't help me," Albright says. "I wear makeup." She brought from her U.N. office her pictures and awards, her Harlem Globetrotters jersey...
Albright took her years of experience at the White House and Senate and turned herself into one of the most popular professors at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. Many of her fellow professors, especially in the blue-blooded government department, may have looked down on her for her thin academic credentials. But the students loved her. "She was like a pied piper," says Peter Krogh, the dean who hired her. "Students flocked to her." They would vote her the best teacher in the School of Foreign Service for a record four years...
Better yet, Prom Queen of the Indies. Her crisp, dark beauty radiates the easy breeding of old-Hollywood royalty. Her wide, playful mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...
SKATING ON THIN...
Baiul's technique on the ice is pure poetry, but I think her Americanization may have led her to skate on thin ice. Maybe a trip back to her native Ukraine would help her over the perilous hurdles of the skating world. PATRICIA PURDIE Houston...