Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mack says he cruised in his cab for fares coming out of the gay bars on Greenwich Village's dock strip at 3 a.m., ferried young professionals to buy heroin in the West Village's Alphabet City and once spent five hours inching through a flood with five malodorous tourists to Kennedy Airport...
Since last year, OPRAH WINFREY, the greatest force in television, has practically saved the alphabet. It's simple. Oprah selects a title for the book-discussion club she launched on her show last fall. Then everyone in America buys it. This gives her the market clout of a Pentagon procurement officer. Architect FRANK GEHRY saw a long struggle culminate in a huge achievement. His $100 million Guggenheim Museum is scheduled to open later this year in Bilbao, Spain...
...upscale bookseller Rizzoli announced plans to open a branch in a little boite in the main Benetton outlet on Fifth Avenue. The store, full of books about fashion, food and style, is meant to be the last word in trendiness. Its name? The e Cafe. For a decade, the alphabet's most culturally significant letter has been X. First there was Malcolm X, then the X-Men, The X-Files, the X Games, the fX network, and Gen X. But X, alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins...
Unfortunately for those who are depending on this new television ratings system, it seems that their best chance may lie in subliminal communication, because the system itself isn't all that helpful. The 30-second flash of alphabet soup in the corner of my eye does not indicate in any degree of detail what type of inappropriate content I am about to see on my screen. Instead, all I am provided is one of six different ratings, reminiscent of the movie-rating system, that offers a rough estimate of the level of violence, sex and bad language contained...
...bodily functions, his brain remained unscathed. He soon discovered that the only muscle still under his control was his left eyelid. By telegraphing a series of blinks, Bauby let his nurses know that his mind was alive and well inside its immobile frame. They responded by reciting a special alphabet to him with the understanding that Bauby would blink at letters he wanted written down. Repeating the process resulted in words, sentences and entire discussions...