Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this spring is Lisa Palac's The Edge of the Bed, in which the author suggests that pornography can be liberating because X-rated movies were sexually freeing for her. "Once I figured out how to look at an erotic image and use my sexual imagination to turn desire into a self-generated orgasm, my life was irrevocably and positively changed," writes Palac. The subtext of her book is that sexual self-revelation is groundbreaking in itself. But of course it isn't. It's at least as old as the '70s. That decade gave us, among other things...
...office is in Pudong, the glittering new business district created by municipal fiat across the river from downtown Shanghai. More than 100 high-rises have already gone up in the authorities' bid to turn Shanghai into China's financial capital. Companies that make a large enough investment even get a street named after them--Siemens Street, for example. But walking around Pudong is an eerie experience: at least three-quarters of the office space is vacant. Such is the impatience of Shanghai to become a world-class city: Build it, and they will come...
...policies in a speech two weeks ago would never fit on a bumper sticker, though the bombast of a lot of critics allowed him to cast the terms as a choice between foolish isolation and practical engagement. No one who knows foreign policy thinks the U.S. should turn China into a pariah state, and only a handful called for Clinton to cancel his trip...
...former currency trader, issued the buy order on the yen as it plummeted to 146 to the dollar, threatening to kick off a new round of falling-currency dominoes in Asia. The big risk was that it would force Chinese monetary authorities to devalue the renminbi and ultimately turn Asia's deep economic slump into a global recession...
...next few weeks. "Obviously the movie has no stars, but it offers new ideas and a fresh voice," says Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, hoping it gets the same strong word of mouth as his previous sleeper hits Emma and Trainspotting. Alexie has even greater aspirations: he thinks it could turn into another Full Monty...