Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bezos may have lost that battle, but he is determined to win the e-commerce war. Last week Amazon.com launched its own electronic flea market to appeal to the millions of online hagglers who passionately bid for everything from stereos and cruises to a Coke bottling plant and the historic town of Johnsonville, Conn. Bezos' is just the latest firm to recognize the Web as the perfect medium to match buyers and sellers in a capitalist free-for-all: Net portal Yahoo rolled out an auction site last fall, and America Online just struck a partnership with industry leader eBay...
...thing that's clear from the glut of contemporary teenpix is that a lot of young talent is being wasted in gonadal junk. If only these kids could find a smart script and a director who knew how to harness their coltish appeal, they might quickly turn promise into achievement. As it happens, the wait wasn't all that long. Here is a picture that has wit, a hairpin-turn narrative, high pizazz and ensemble star quality. Ready...
...more I think about it, the more I realize that not including the children of high rollers among the original acceptances could add to the scheme's appeal. Rich people tend to be thrilled by the opportunity to get into places that are supposedly full. It makes them feel important. That's what those silly locker-room discussions about which big shot really has power come down to: Knicks tickets and tables at hot restaurants...
Radical mastectomy is inevitably traumatic, a disfigurement of a part of the body that our culture sees as the focus of a woman's femininity and sexual appeal. Motichka turned that trauma into both therapy and art; the pictures made her famous. Still, she says, the fame and exposure could not make up for the fact that she had lost a breast. "All was good on the surface," she says, "but that didn't mean I didn't have difficulty walking down the street." Beyond that, active involvement with oncologists and advocacy groups was educating Motichka about treatment options...
...degree murder rather than the first-degree charge demanded by Skrzynski, which would have put Kevorkian in line for a mandatory life sentence. Instead, he could get 10 to 25 years on the murder charge and seven years on a related conviction for delivering a controlled substance. Kevorkian will appeal the verdict...