Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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David Boies, the lawyer who won Al Gore's fight for a recount, is an awfully rumpled sort for the permanently pressed Vice President. He has a steel-trap mind but the quirks of a little kid. When I catch up with him on Friday morning--after he has cut short his Thanksgiving break, flying back to Tallahassee, Fla., from his home in New York's Westchester County ("I had two turkey lunches, but no dinner")--he runs upstairs to his room at the tiny Governor's Inn to change out of his blue suit; it's the only...
...Europe and Japan. "It's a stake in the ground," says CEO George Warrington, who envisions Acela as the first of a necklace of high-speed rail corridors (such as Los Angeles-San Francisco and Chicago-Milwaukee). It has to move fast though. With Congress set to cut off operating subsidies by the end of 2002, Amtrak has to run in the black or face liquidation...
...best-selling jazz albums ever; it is also nothing less than the sound track to the lives of several generations of loners and romantics. There are people quoted in these books who remember the first time they heard the two-note signature riff of its first cut, So What, as vividly as they recall the day John F. Kennedy was shot...
...gnomic statement that nails Davis precisely. Unable to execute the speedy, flowing lines of be-bop, he instead found a voice whose terse eloquence resided not only in his exquisite, lapidary phrases but in the silent spaces between them as well. On Blue in Green, the album's third cut, there are passages of such poised stillness that they constitute a sort of aural photograph, a moment perfectly preserved...
...carbohydrate (a fruit, say) with protein and unsaturated fat at every snack or meal. The 1,000-plus calories from the 15 cups of juice a day Wayne had been drinking, along with the big portions of rice in Bernadette's West Indian cooking, were not going to cut it. Anxious about reducing rice but relieved to have a handle on some of Wayne's problems, Bernadette agreed she would try to adjust...