Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suppose I shouldn't complain. After all, my popularity in Spain was due in large part to my California driver's license, to my ability to claim residence in the land of "Baywatch" and buxom, blond lifeguards. Store owners and custom officials would take a glance at my Los Angeles address and become chummy and friendly, eager to chat. "Harvard," on the other hand, triggered no special response and "Boston" merely elicited a blank stare...
...have done such a good job of demonstrating our spending prowess that on the Gran Via, a main shopping thoroughfare in Madrid, there is a cafeteria Iowa, el restaurante Ohio, el Hostal American and el Hotel California--all designed to make us feel more at home...
...summer was a busy one for the neurologist, who said that reacquainting himself with the Boston medical community after years in California was like "coming home in many ways...
...civil lawsuits that produce the most dramatic reform. Last year a federal jury in New York awarded Mason $1.2 million for her abduction to Alabama, a judgment that, though later reduced by the judge, sent a chill through the bounty-hunting community. Another family, terrorized in a Southern California Motel 6, won a $1.15 million verdict. Despite last week's deaths, damage awards like these are inexorably exerting a civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds...
...self-described Beavis and Butt-head goofball while growing up, Spacey, 38, moved around California frequently because his father, a technical writer, switched jobs often. Packed off to a military school after setting his sister's tree house on fire, Kevin was booted from the academy when he tossed a tire at a fellow cadet during a boxing match. He finally settled down at 14, when he saw a production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at a high school drama festival and caught the acting bug. He joined a drama class and studied alongside other fledgling thespians, including...