Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mouth recommendations are hard to come by in the world of hotlines. Comments like, "Hey, this horrible thing happened to me and I called Response and they were incredibly helpful and supportive" don't usually come up unsolicited in everyday conversation. On the other hand, in the Woody Allen age going to therapy may be something easy to do. Then again, in the self-help, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American culture, seeking help is never easy, talking about it even harder...
...exciting to see so many young people, especially from high schools, to involve themselves in Serve-a-thon," said Jimmy Allen, who has staffed the Serve-a-thon for four years...
...serve schools where at least 70% of the student body is impoverished. Teachers must carry an access card and a shopping list endorsed by their principal. Odom recalls teachers "literally crying," knowing their kids "would have a notebook for each subject." At the ribbon cutting in Los Angeles, Monique Allen, 10, of the 68th Street school, says she long suspected one of her teachers had deep pockets because the school "didn't have the kind of paper she put in my math folder." Now it does...
...however, the only thing he does. Last February Torvalds moved his family from Finland to Silicon Valley. He now pulls down a six-figure salary as a full-time programmer for Transmeta Corp., a top-secret, high-tech start-up backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The combination of Allen and Torvalds has fueled wild speculation about what Transmeta might be up to in its Santa Clara, Calif., skunk works. Is it building a new microprocessor that will compete with Intel's x86 chip set? Is it using, as some seem to believe, technology borrowed from visiting aliens...
...director Gary Ross. The movie imagines that two teenagers, David (Tobey Maguire) and his randy sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), are magically transported from the '90s into the small, sleepy town of David's favorite '50s sitcom. The "knows-best" father, George (William H. Macy), and his wife Betty (Joan Allen), all starched sweetness, are convinced that David is Bud, a.k.a. Sport, and that Jennifer, now outfitted in a poodle-skirt-and-sweater set, is Mary Sue--Muffin to her doting dad. Weirdest of all, the whole town is in black-and-white. "We're supposed to be at home, David...