Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basically have what I'd call an aggrandized champagne bucket," Osofsky said...
...Just call it your entire life online. Kraus is the 26-year-old cofounder of Excite excite.com) the Web's No. 2, "we try harder" search engine, one of those immensely useful sites that search the Internet for pages that contain whatever words or phrases you type in. This week Excite unveils its latest incarnation, centered on what the digerati call "personalization." If you want to stick with Excite's standard service, that's fine. But the more personal data you're willing to feed the site, the more the Net's teeming world of data will come formatted...
...biography of little-known Abstract Expressionist painter NAT TATE, who, at 31, committed suicide after meeting Picasso and Braque and destroying most of his work, except the painting above. At the book party, English journalist David Lister asked guests if they had heard of Tate. Many had. Bad call. After very little digging, Lister discovered that Tate, photo and all, was a fiction. Boyd did the painting...
...first house call anyone can remember the Nike Lady making was to the Seinfeld set. Her impact was immediate--especially on the show's star, who apparently had an unambiguous sense of entitlement. Seinfeld's appetite for free sneakers became legendary. His office overflowed with shoe boxes, and one ex-writer remembers Jerry emerging "like Evita, tossing extra sneakers to the staff." In time the staff members too became hooked, and for them Tracy provided a catalog in which they could check off whatever they wanted. "It was everything--running shoes, hiking boots, sandals. People were taking up extreme sports...
...Washington last Friday, Bill Clinton began a 30-minute phone conversation with George Mitchell in Belfast. The parties were eight hours past the negotiating deadline, but a breakthrough was close. Mitchell asked the President to make another round of calls to save the pact the former Maine Senator had drafted. No sooner did Mitchell hang up than British Prime Minister Tony Blair phoned the White House, asking Clinton to call and reassure wavering unionist leader David Trimble. Everyone was up most of the night, but nine hours later an exhausted and exhilarated Mitchell announced the deal that few had given...