Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once Dave has mastered the President's swivel chair (he has a tendency to tip too far back in it), he starts mastering the other instruments of power as well. Budget reform, an improved day-care program, a bold new jobs program, even the banishment of corruption -- all these he achieves by the simple assertion of guileless right thinking. He even manages to woo Mrs. Mitchell (Sigourney Weaver) out of the separate bedroom and angry silence into which her real husband has forced her to retreat...
...gives, echoed by a majority of women in the survey, is, "Do not defer your personal life. Men don't, and you shouldn't. You will be discriminated against as a woman whether or not you have a personal life." An unmarried Boston law partner offers another practical tip: "Have your children at one job and your career at another...
...they were known to have had chest cavities large enough to hold huge hearts, like birds. Additional evidence is found in their migratory patterns. "There's no question that dinosaurs got as far north and as far south as there was land," says Bakker. "What should have been the tip-off is that the ones you find in the far north are the same ones you find in the south, so they could live in a wide range of climates. Also, I don't see any way dinosaurs could have survived up there unless they migrated, and migration takes energy...
...TIP FOR MALE NOVELISTS WITH A YEN to be Danielle Steel: a motorcycle will haul almost any load of sentimental mush. Robert Olmstead knows this. In his novel AMERICA BY LAND (Random House; $20), Ray Redfield, 23 and drifting, heads out on his Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state...
...successful partner in a business that makes videos of weddings. Makes, in fact, seamlessly joyous videos of weddings often awkward and sour, which is an art, and one she is good at. But her hobbies, shoplifting clothes from Bergdorf and ingesting methamphetamine, which she does quite often from the tip of her jackknife blade, don't foretell a long and happy life. She is a diabetic, in addition, and her meth addiction worsens a deteriorating eye condition whose far end is blindness...