Word: coin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the video camera rolls at a shoot, adult performers present each other with identification and valid--less than 90-day-old--HIV tests to prove that neither performer carries the virus. The exchange is routine and ritualistic, like a coin toss before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into...
...Eagle scout. I got to do coin collecting and figure skating. I took a year off before college. I worked at a hardware store. I worked at a surgical laser factory. My job was like Zack the Lego maniac, I was the guy who puts the Legos into...
...longest drought in my life." What the hell! Who cares! (And to prove he hasn't reevaluated his priorities, go back and watch his expression when he lost last year's Best Picture Oscar to Harvey Weinstein and the Shakespeare in Love team.) On the other side of the coin are artists like Johnny Depp and Daniel Day-Lewis (I'd even put Prince or the Artist or whatever in this category), "celebrities" who are perfectly content to hone their craft and avoid the mainstream. Unfortunately, most Hollywood celebrities are desperate for "respect," a supposed consequence of winning an award...
...Other Side of the Coin...
Harvard won the overtime coin toss and decided to go second. (In college football, each team is guaranteed at least one possession in overtime.) Holy Cross tried a trick play that failed, then threw incomplete, then ran for two yards. A 40-yard field goal attempt missed wide right, so the Crimson only needed a field goal...