Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hashimoto's dynamic reputation -- he'll come from the ranks of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. And that's part of Japan's conundrum. Traditionally, there has been no serious alternative to the LDP. The Japanese public has been willing to elect members of rival parties into the weak Upper House as a form of protest, as they did on Sunday, but they're still reluctant to put opposition candidates behind the wheel of real power in the dominant Lower House...
...media these days are awash in managerial pornography: adulatory profiles of the big-shot CEO, allegedly revealing the secrets of his success. The bookstores offer shelves of advice about how to be a successful manager. A middle manager with dreams, like so many others, of becoming an upper-middle manager reads the articles and scans the books looking for inspiration...
Gelb was the metropolitan editor at The New York Times in 1968 when Lukas won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing on the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick, a young, upper-class woman from Conn. who began a dual life amidst New York City's drug culture...
Luckily, you're just a voyeur at Segarra's experience, sitting safely in a stadium-style seat at the Sony IMAX Theatre on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Your nose seemingly pressed against an eight-story-high screen, you're living that perilous moment through the IMAX film Everest. Shakun Lakhani, a New Jersey homemaker, was so awed by the film that she went back a second time. "It is beyond your imagination," she said. "You are experiencing Mount Everest as if you're climbing it yourself." That's because David Breashears and Steve Judson went to the Himalayas...
...same model wearing a different dress. There are about a hundred of these changes in the course of the 12 minutes the film lasts, and every outfit is as banal as the last. It's meant (one presumes) to satirize the cultural pretensions of the upper reaches of the rag trade: Warhol with the glamour taken out. It makes for a very long 12 minutes...