Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine that it's a friend's birthday. You take her out to dinner or drinks, or invite a bunch of people over for a party. Parties, dinner dates and drinks are all lots of fun. But there are all sorts of fun things that you could do in addition, or instead. You could put a huge piece of paper on her wall and have people scribble things about her on it with magic markers, either while she's there or before she arrives, or make a collage of photos of her and her friends. You could take her "trick...
...third set was tough," Majmudar said. "With new balls we both were holding serve. At 4-4, I returned really well and had a bunch of break points. He saved about five of them before I finally broke...
...compared with last season. The extra commercials that networks air to offset their higher costs have only prompted viewers to channel-surf more frequently away from the major sports. Big-salaried athletes with bad attitudes have been turning off fans. And now a squabble over money among a bunch of rich men--pro basketball's owners and players--has forced cancellation of a month of games, further alienating that sport's followers...
...teens and young adults love what they're seeing. "Extreme athletes take their sports more seriously. Mainstream athletes make so much money, it's just a job for them," says Jonathon Meir, 14, of Incline Village, Nev. His friend Tyler McPherron, 14, adds that he associates football with "a bunch of old guys sitting on the couch and drinking beer." Snowboard and mountain-bike legend Shaun Palmer agrees, pointing out that individualistic extreme sports are "a lot better than going to football practice every day and having your coach yell...
...aging members no longer find anyone younger worthy of filling vacancies left by the deceased. "If we don't ever manage to elect anybody," Bech lectures the group, "the institution will dwindle to nothing." Who would care? Not Bech's current mistress, Martina, who dismisses the Forty as "a bunch of mostly New York City has-beens electing themselves." Updike has one surprise for his beleaguered hero: the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anyone who thinks this stunning recognition will at long last make Bech at age 74 happy and fulfilled underestimates his funny and finely honed habits of suffering...