Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Magic's kicks were a little more flashy, as was his style of play, and more importantly, his team. The basic black of the Larry shoes were replaced with the bright yellow and purple of the Los Angeles Lakers. This was Showtime, and these shoes exemplified that. They were unmistakably the shoes of the Lakers, but not unmistakably the shoes of Magic Johnson. Again, the colors were the predominant feature, not an artistic rendering of Magic's huge grin...
What does it mean when soldiers start treating their comrades-in-arms as if they were members of an enemy force? For one thing, and this is the bright side, it means we should be hearing a lot less of the sanctimonious argument that women don't belong in the military because they occupy a "protected" category. Not that that argument was ever anything more than patriarchal propaganda. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, for example, they slaughtered every resident--man, woman, child and pet--and waded, triumphantly, in the knee-deep blood. Nor have civilian women ever been entirely safe...
...plane wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which shows a bright blip in the evening sky. A missile? But reporters and federal investigators determined that the picture was taken facing north, away from the sea where the plane eventually fell. Above all, the exasperated federal agents say, the friendly fire theory would require a conspiracy in which hundreds of sailors, flyers...
...those who sought them, there were signs that Hiss was more than just a bright young bureaucrat. While working by day on Wall Street, he was active by night in the International Juridical Association, an alleged communist-front lawyers' organization. As early as 1942, the FBI received warnings that Hiss was probably a Soviet agent. The stories became so persistent that late in 1946 officials at State quietly arranged for him to assume the largely ceremonial presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss was serving as head of the Endowment on Aug. 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers...
...good service at the company's basement prices. The standard issue P200, at $2,599, includes a 200-MHz Pentium processor, 32 MB of ram and a roomy hard drive (2.1 GB). Its multimedia package boasts a fast graphics card, a CD-ROM drive, a subwoofer and a bright, Trinitron 15-in. monitor. When you're not playing games, you can take advantage of the bundled business software...