Word: slight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fundraisers for Indiana Reps. John Hostettler and Mark Souder after the two joined 13 other Republicans on Friday opposing a plan to end the federal shutdown, despite the Speaker's emotional appeal for support. The bill passed easily 401-17 but Gingrich isn't forgetting the slight, altering his schedule to favor those who voted with him. Gingrich aide Tony Blankley confirmed that the votes led the Speaker to dump the fundraisers...
...think that coin tossing isn't random, it's physics," he says. "You can show that a very slight change in how you flip it makes for the difference between heads and tails...
...Tough" is not a word usually associated with Houston or her music. "Safe" and "homogenized" are, though not always fairly. She has a towering, dynamic voice, but when she sings material that's too slight for her skills (such as Love Is a Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million...
...WICKED WORLD IN WHICH THE POWER OF ANY INDIvidual to cause suffering is so great and the power to do good is so slight; but here we are, the week of our beloved national feast, our annual homecoming, and signs of loving Providence are everywhere around...
Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon recorded the unfinished tune--a slight hymn to deliverance, with the structure of his 1964 This Boy and the feel of his 1970 post-Beatles Love--on a low-fi home cassette, which Yoko Ono Lennon turned over to her husband's old chums. "It had hums, hisses and clicks that had to be removed," says pop maestro Jeff Lynne, formerly of Electric Light Orchestra, who produced this year's eerie session. "But that was the easy part. The hard part was getting the Beatles to play together along with him." Once they...