Word: burnting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Economou said he noticed "a burnt pile of garbage" in front of room...
...brings his 4.4-speed to his column, which draws its name from a cosmic interaction between his fas unsername (blee) and the Houston Rockets' slogan during their championship years. He wrote his application essay about Jerry Rice and will name his fistborn son after the wide reciever. He bleeds burnt orange...
Maybe Chanel started it with its burnt-burgundy Vamp nail polish. Maybe the cosmetics industry finally found a way to co-opt grunge. Whichever, names for cosmetic colors are getting a lot less glamorous. Poppy offers a lipstick called Vanity. Hard Candy has one called Porno and another called Navel. But for names that really scream grotesque, it's tough to beat Urban Decay, whose new fall colors for lips, eyes and nails include Rust, Gash, Gangrene, Vapor and Toxin. Surprisingly, no less a store than Nordstrom's has bought the line, which is selling best in its Mall...
...built the Resting Place of All Concrete--McCormick Place, world's largest convention center, out on the lake in the late '50s. It was forever in construction, and one would have thought, on its completion, that everyone's nephew had bought his boat; but lo, it opened, was inaugurated, burnt to the ground, and the construction began again, and great was the joy of the marine sales community...
...their problems? After all, this is the same crowd of people that merely 58 years ago believed Martians were invading the earth. When Orson Welles dramatized War of the Worlds over the radio, 20 percent of the six million people listening believed that New Jersey had just been burnt to the ground by Martians. The highways were jammed with people trying to leave; the telephone lines to the police were busy with people asking them to confirm the report...