Word: buff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet Entertainment Group, a smutty company infamous for revealing Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's most intimate moments and, last month, rocker Keith Richards in the saggy buff, Seattle's Seth Warshavsky, 26, has made millions from his cybermall of adult websites. His members-only Clublove site boasts 115,000 subscribers, who pony up $24.95 a month for a variety of salacious fare. But he has also found gold in a bizarre array of pay-per-view Web events. Care to watch brain surgery live online? Or a sex-change operation? Warshavsky's live-just-about-anything imagination has made...
...more subtext than we expect to find in enterprises like The Matrix. Besides, there's real wit in their presentation of the Zionist oracle (who turns out to be a motherly black lady baking cookies in an old-fashioned kitchen), and real sexiness in Carrie-Anne Moss as super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here. And that's a rare and welcome commodity in mass-market moviemaking these...
...valuation, producing vivid epitomes of social standing as he did so. His portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, for instance, remains the definitive image of the late-Victorian equestrian male: superbly grave and self-contained, tall as a tree, and yet with a touch of carelessness in the flare of his buff hunting waistcoat and the dashing arabesque of paint with which, in a single loaded stroke, Sargent conveyed the fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured, in its way, as any brushstroke by de Kooning. With women Sargent was in his element, and icons of late-Victorian and Edwardian femininity...
...defining event of DiMaggio's career occurred in 1941, when he got at least one base hit in 56 consecutive games--a feat of consistency no other player has come close to matching. Evolutionary biologist (and sports buff) Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that "DiMaggio's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports...
...came the next performer amid adoring screams. While most of us at Harvard are mired in midterm hell, Tatyana Ali '02 ended her night by being carried offstage by two very buff male dancers. (If the Harvard libraries had such a service, the amount of studying that would surely skyrocket.) But the 20-year-old Ali has taken the semester off to tour with 'N SYNC, and her time was well spent...