Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post-teen set -- more than one writer has called twentysomethings the Winona Generation -- there is a quality in her dark, Walter Keane-eyed beauty that pulls her out of her time and into the crinolined past. No modern actress has her watchfulness, her fiery reticence, her gift of girlish blush and fluster. Nobody else even tries to monitor the intelligent, expectant heart beating in a virgin's breast. The true Ryder heroine is a gentle soul in tremulous transition to maturity. Not a fairy-tale princess, either, but a bright child, ripe for romance, who opens a storybook and eagerly...
...owners' gambit: Replace their escalating payroll tax idea with a flat tax -- a second alternative to the hated salary cap. Owners' negotiator John Harrington said yesterday the plan was a "substantial move," but players' union head Donald Fehr may have foreshadowed tonight's answer over the weekend: "At first blush, it appears their new proposal contains virtually all the elements of the salary cap." BTW: Strikers' fears of being replaced by foreign athletes are now for naught. Since the Labor Department certified the strike this weekend, the U.S. now won't grant any imported stars entry visas.Post your opinion...
...first blush, the President's Fund appears tobe most representative of Rudenstine's goal of aunified fund drive. But campaign officials haveyet to develop any well-defined structure or planfor raising the President's Fund...
...game characterized on both sides by rough, physical play, ugly goals and as many infractions as would make the Oklahoma football program blush, the Crimson gave birth yesterday to a teeth-gritting 10-7 win over 16th-ranked and previously-unbeaten Vermont at Ohiri Field...
...first blush there's nothing unusual about the RTC's appointing a lawyer like Stephens. With its staff taxed to the limit, the RTC routinely farms out complicated legal work to private lawyers. But the agency didn't pick just anyone. Stephens, says a banking regulator, "was deliberately chosen so the RTC could deflect any charges that it wasn't being rigorous in its Madison- related investigations...