Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their plastic surgery. ("Was it painful?" "No, darling, it was Silverman.") A women's book club meets every week to discuss the same novel, The Bridges of Madison County. The group's leader has restyled her hair and wardrobe to look like Francesca, the farm wife who has a torrid affair in the book with a magazine photographer. The others are just as far gone. "You know, I've searched through over a hundred copies of National Geographic, and I cannot find a Robert Kincaid photograph for the life of me," says one. "Why don't they give him credit...
...rust. Something stranger is happening, though: the plant has been sold to the Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild it to help satisfy China's insatiable industrial appetite. Thought to have expanded at a torrid rate of 13% in 1993, China's economy has been the fastest growing in the world for two years...
...went on to endorse speedy reforms in taxation, banking and investment to provide a more sophisticated financial system for the nurturing of sustained growth. But those reforms will take time to bite. In the short term, it was far from clear how Beijing could control a renewed torrid growth rate without setting off a new round of inflation and speculation...
...Give Racism the Boot." That politically correct advertising slogan, combined with environmentally conscious products, has turned Timberland Co. of Hampton, New Hampshire, into a hot marketer and a torrid stock. With customers from suburban professionals to inner-city youths clamoring for its rugged boots and outdoorsy apparel, Timberland last month reported the strongest third-quarter sales and profits in its 20-year history...
...film cobbles together its story line from every half-baked rumor that ever surfaced about the famous pair. Bobby and Marilyn had a torrid affair, we learn, that was witnessed almost every step of the way by surveillance men hired by Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters boss even orders Bobby killed, but the would-be assassin, after training his telescopic sight on the couple smooching in a park, chickens out. Good thing, since Mafia boss Sam Giancana shortly thereafter tells Hoffa to lay off because the Mob is "doing a little business" with the Kennedy brothers...