Word: trim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must have a trim and girlish figure...
...animaster's great coup may have been to impose his will--that the film not be cut--on Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax. Weinstein is notorious for his itch to trim foreign films to suit the faster American pulse; he reads a sonnet and dreams of a couplet. Says Weinstein: "It's a genius movie. Could it be streamlined? Yeah, and it could be more accessible as a result of cutting. But Miyazaki is like Kurosawa or Sergio Leone--one of the greats of international cinema. The very idea of cutting is anathema to a director of this importance...
Then there's the whole issue of setting priorities. With the fourth meal, Harvard says to students: Your work is everything. If it takes 18 hours a day to complete, then trim back extraneous details like eating and sleeping and get to it! You never know who may be staying up one hour later than...
...iBooks are beautiful. Sitting at my roommate's new Macintosh laptop, I almost wish that I never switched away from Apple. The iBook's translucent polycarbon plastic casing is soothingly, subtly textured, and its rubberized blueberry trim is smooth and soft. It's flared, curved outline and rounded edges remind me of a clam, and the white springs visible beneath its cloudy-clear keys look almost like veins. As I hold it in my lap, the iBook feels vaguely alive...
...announce on Tuesday that it plans to place more faith in its member doctors' diagnoses. The health plan, which insures more than 14 million Americans, spent $100 million in the past year scrutinizing doctors' recommended treatments, and, according to plan officials, ended up approving 99 percent of them. To trim these costs, executives have turned to a novel idea: Let the doctors decide what treatments are medically necessary, and let it go at that. "It's just extraordinary," Robert Blendon, a Harvard University professor of health policy, told The Dallas Morning News. "Here they are saying that there are other...