Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What a fantastic specimen. This pair seems to be Midwestern. Kansas perhaps? Certainly an enjoyable breed, but I would rather see a Texan. I like them a little louder with more garish clothing...
With Jackie it was Aristotle Onassis who could offer shelter, an insular combination of great wealth and Mediterranean escape routes. Now, with another generation, it is Vardinoyiannis. What is it about Greek shipping tycoons? The breed is conspicuous to Americans as caricature, all pinky rings and suntans, all echoes of Ari and his pals. But as individuals, they somehow remain indistinct, without celebrity, and so a royally scrutinized clan like the Kennedys can visit, take the sweet sea airs, and have opulence and privacy at the same address. If it is not always good to be a Kennedy, the solace...
...soldiers' survival training. Service members trapped behind enemy lines may have to live for days on the run, and the ability to find food can be critical to their survival, defense officials say. That's why the Air Force routinely orders hundreds of 5-lb. rabbits ("any color...any breed," according to a purchase request) for $7 each. Instructional aids for the survival course include a "club to kill animal...
...achieved great financial or political power; in fact, the old Aryan Nation-style groups are struggling. But authorities believe violence motivated by hate is increasing, in part because hate groups now wield powerful new tools, including the Internet and the arts of media management, to attract a different breed of racist. More college kids and suburban residents have joined, and WCOTC is even making direct appeals to women. Also drawn to the fiery words are loners who feel profoundly disaffected by societal change, young men who are already on the edge of violence...
...Breed of horror films was postmodern and self-mocking," says David Koepp, director and screenwriter of the ghostly Stir of Echoes. "The new New Breed movies aim a bit higher in the hierarchy of horror." Koepp's film, to open in September, stars Kevin Bacon as a blue-collar guy haunted by intimations of a distressed, deceased soul somewhere in his house. Says Koepp: "I tried creating a sense of total reality, because the movies that always scared the hell out of me were set in real, almost mundane domestic situations." In these restless residences and bucolic settings, fear...