Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their sleep, maybe in their dreams. Since the formula is so familiar, they know the trick is to tweak it. Remember Too Beautiful for You, where Gerard Depardieu spurns gorgeous wife Carole Bouquet for dumpy secretary Josiane Balasko? This time writing and directing as well as starring, Balasko has wrung another variation on the old gag. Husband, wife, lesbian interloper. French Twist...
...With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread...
Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...
Nevertheless, it must be frustrating for any President to watch the Fed playing party pooper. That's why Clinton deserves great credit for supporting Alan Greenspan -- just as Ronald Reagan's best economic deed was standing by without protest as Fed chairman Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s. Clinton's fortitude is even more admirable, since Greenspan is trying to avoid a future bout of inflation, not cure a current one. And according to Woodward, Clinton's political advisers all think Greenspan is the devil incarnate, so Clinton gets extra points for resisting them...
...Just before last week's meeting, Commission officials approved a plan to sell Eisenhuttenstadt to Italian steelmaker Riva and save existing jobs, if Bonn scaled back its original $650 million subsidy proposal for upgrading. Because that plan would feature a new 900,000-ton hot rolling mill, the Commission wrung nearly 500,000 tons of compensating capacity out of plants elsewhere in eastern Germany...