Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NEVER A MAN FOR SELF-EFFACEMENT, BORIS YELTSIN concluded last week's signing of the START II treaty by pronouncing it the "document of the century." He then seized the hand of George ("my friend") Bush and began squeezing as if he were trying to wring out a wet dishrag. The gesture was an appropriate one: increasingly beleaguered by a devilish array of domestic problems, the Russian President must twist every drop of prestige he can from his foreign triumphs. Yet not even the acclaim of history's most extensive cutback in nuclear missiles could compensate for an economy tailspinning...
Damage was directed by Frenchman Louis Malle (in whose country the film is waggishly tagged Dommage); Peter's Friends was co-written by U.S. comic princess Rita Rudner. But these films are British to the bone. They take the dry approach to very wet issues: mad passion in Damage, nearly every other brand of designer angst in Peter's Friends...
...given a comical twist in these black-and- white magazine portraits of frustrating moments. A woman ties her dog to the side of the house; when it lunges, the whole structure collapses. In another, just as a laborer is finishing a perfect sidewalk, a friendly pup trots through the wet cement to visit him. The bottom line: "Fortunately, every day comes with an evening." And a soothing whiskey, perhaps...
...mind's playing tricks on me too") while simultaneously justifying his high anxiety. A native of South Central Los Angeles, he wears that city's riots like a crown of thorns, invoking them again and again as proof of his worst fears about America. On Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha, he goes after the white cops in the Rodney King episode: "Those devils can beat up a motorist/ And get nothing but a slap on the wrist/ Gorillas, gorillas/ Report to the mist...
...shuttles are like a blessing in disguise that nobody notices," Ament says. "People always gripe when its late, but on a [wet, cold] night like tonight people really are grateful...