Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walk. This time in the subway station he was met by a man who walked with him toward a taxi stand, where they were met by a car with the diplomatic plates of the Russian embassy, all in full view of his FBI tail. After Nicholson threw a camera bag into the trunk and got into the back seat, the car drove away. The affidavit notes drily: "This meeting with Russian nationals was not authorized...
...expect so much from the woman who is married to the President--but we don't really know what it is we expect." The only way for a First Lady to "escape the politics of one's time," Hillary said, is "to totally withdraw and perhaps put a bag over your head, or somehow make it clear that you have no opinions and no ideas about anything--and never express them, publicly or privately." The audience cheered, egging her on, and Hillary became even more combative and self-revelatory. "There is something about the position itself which raises in Americans...
...subject but not itself seriously. It has a theme: the temptation to become something other and powerful, instead of cozy, ordinary you. It borrows not only from the Trek canon, but from other science fiction (eek!--there's a killer alien on board!). Yet First Contact is no grab bag of camp gewgaws; it stands proud and apart, accessible even to the Trek-deficient. This old Star, it seems, has a lot of life...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In an apparent concession that air bags can pose more risks than benefits for small adults and children, the government has reportedly reversed policy and will allow motorists to have their air bags disconnected. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration within days will rewrite regulations to allow motorists to have their air bags disconnected by dealers and mechanics, according to a report in USA Today. Currently, only car users can disconnect safety devices, but few have the mechanical know-how required. This approach is an alternative to giving motorists a cutoff switch that would allow drivers to turn...
...could summarize the studios' elevated intentions in one word: Hamlet. The whole thing--four hours of Elizabethan English, courtesy of Kenneth Branagh. It's the toniest offering in a bag of very worthy holiday films. And still we hear America saying, "Anyone for pigging out in front of the bowl games...