Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imelda has seen her former life of glamour, riches and power reduced to shards. Impassive and wan, her face puffy, she is a long way from the days when she was runner-up in the Miss Manila beauty contest, or danced cheek to cheek with President Lyndon Johnson, or took the microphone to croon for state visitors at the Malacanang Palace, or dazzled foreign capitals in her exotic Philippine gowns. Back then Imelda was a force to be reckoned with -- governor of the Manila district, Minister of Human Settlements. There was even talk that she might succeed her husband...
Three days later, Zhou went into hiding after he learned that the innovative Stone Corp., the computer firm he had worked for as a policy planner, had become the target of a witch-hunt. Its president, Wan Runnan, now a leading dissident in exile in Paris, had been close to then party chief Zhao Ziyang and an ardent supporter of the students...
...next day, Harvard dropped a 6-4 decision to the Sox as Boston's farmhands snuffed out a Crimson rally in the ninth. Konjoyan and Wan Zarate singled to start the inning, and Del Vecchio knocked in Konjoyan with a base hit. With runners on the corners, Shire flew out to center deep enough to score Zarate to cut the Bosox lead to two runs. But Tim Hurley and Allen both flied out to end the game...
...VERSUS THE VOLCANO. In this wan bit of whimsy from Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley, Tom Hanks plays a young man who believes he is dying and so agrees to jump into a live volcano. The picture makes no more sense than its synopsis, though Meg Ryan beguiles in three different roles...