Word: flossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accept your limitations. A lot of us get hung up on the idea that we have to reform perfectly or not at all. We floss our teeth twice a day every day for a week, then we forget one morning and give up trying for the rest of the year. Let's face it. You're going to suffer setbacks. Be honest with yourself about why they happened, then pick up the pieces and move...
...care institute calls to ask how often I floss, I might say a couple of times a week, because I know I should and wish I did. No doubt this was the mentality of the more than 3,000 working adults who, when asked by the Families and Work Institute whether they were spending more time with their families, said, "You betcha!" Men claimed they were devoting more than two hours every day to Kinder and Kuche, half an hour more than 20 years ago. This, naturally, spawned outsize headlines, led by the New York Times's MEN ASSUMING BIGGER...
...Wash. Floss. Flush. Brush. Pay your bills. Recycle. Call your mother...
...Mill on the Floss Ah, if only all Sunday-night TV movies dealing with women in peril could be as subtly haunting as this PBS version of George Eliot's 1860 novel. The filmed story of Maggie Tulliver (played by Emily Watson) features no stalkers, mind you, but evokes poetically the inescapable dangers of possessing a divided heart...
...world of Mad City. Travolta's Baily is the sweetest, most lovable terrorist ever created for the screen: a made-to-order innocent for the media to crucify. His childlike naivete is charming at first, but after a while, one begins to wonder if he could successfully floss his teeth without injuring himself. In short, Sam Baily is just a little too vulnerable. The film might have been more interesting had he been portrayed as a troubled adult instead of a confused child...