Word: offing
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I won't say when my family traveled around the country anybody ever took a long look at us and said, "You folks from Kansas City, or what?" For one thing, the organizations that seem to believe it's helpful (or maybe amusing) to publicize urban poundage comparisons hadn't...
I'm now bracing for another January campaign to stampede us all toward the scales. The Jenny Craig weight-reduction program has just launched a series of commercials featuring Monica Lewinsky. They compete with an already existing Weight Watchers campaign that features Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Weight-reduction programs...
OUSTED. HENRI KONAN BEDIE, 65, authoritarian Ivory Coast President whose antiforeign policies and corruption led to a military junta on Christmas Eve; in the first coup in the country's 39 years of independence; in Abidjan.
RECOVERING. CROWN PRINCESS MASAKO, 36, of Japan's imperial family; following surgery after a miscarriage; in Tokyo. The announcement last month of the Princess's pregnancy, which could have resulted in the first direct heir to the throne since 1965, inspired a national media frenzy.
DIED. CURTIS MAYFIELD, 57, Superfly singer-songwriter who urged listeners to Keep On Pushing during the civil rights movement; from the effects of a 1990 accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down; in Roswell, Ga. (see Eulogy).