Word: bites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million overhaul that gave the QE2 modern diesel engines and revamped its accommodations. An official of the Cunard Line, which owns the 18-year-old ocean liner, said it was assumed that the renovated ship would suffer "teething problems." But their unexpected magnitude will take a $1 million bite out of Cunard's revenues in partial refunds offered to customers...
...learn about classical music. There's nothing very mysterious about it, or at least nothing more mysterious than great achievements in any type of art. You can decide for yourself, damn the "experts," which composers and pieces you like. Classical music won't bite...
...sequence in which Steel loses Mandel in a shopping mall, for instance, is very funny because of the strangeness of the environment and the newness of the situation. Otherwise, the movie hounds the same meager jokes to death. As a result, Walk Like a Man gradually loses its bite...
...with a plastic pink flamingo that he props outside the door wherever he parks. Most recently, the trailer -- and flamingo -- was parked in a wooded lot of a wealthy northern Virginia suburb while serving as home for Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little out of place to you, consider what Badanes and his three colleagues, architect-builders who call themselves the Jersey Devil, were constructing on the same lot: a multimillion-dollar house that's shaped...
Readers of London's Daily Mail were appalled last week to read that a goldfish nicknamed George had leaped out of his bowl and taken a bite out of 12-year- old Amanda Baker's hand. A photograph showed the shaken girl holding up her bandaged limb. The killer goldfish, the paper explained, was the result of an attempt to breed a male piranha with a female goldfish. The same day the , Guardian reported that the world's first photograph, some 200 years old, had been located in a Japanese cave...