Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a time when it was assumed that being religious was not a cool or intellectually respectable thing. I think that has really changed. It is a change across the country," he says...
...maintained your workout schedule during the past few weeks of holiday madness, kept your cool while flagging down salesclerks and passed on the chocolate-covered treats at the office, then you have my sincere congratulations. But if you're like the rest of us, you've slept in, lost your temper and scarfed down the cookies. So now, like millions of other Americans, you have made yet another New Year's resolution to drop a few pounds, exercise more, drink less, stop smoking or just plain chill out. It won't be easy. In fact, you may have already broken...
...does the U.S., whose waffling on global warming Hertsgaard notes with contempt. He concludes his book, as is customary, with a spoonful of optimism. The marvelous energy of capitalism, he suggests, could be put to conserving energy. Insulate more; heat and cool less. Build green fridges and cars that run on nonpolluting fuel cells...
When Western pop performers draw explicitly from Third World sources, one can get the queasy feeling that somewhere an indigenous artist is producing better, more authentic music that will never be widely heard. In this compilation, rocker David Byrne plays it cool, stands back and simply presents the original work of some of his favorite Brazilian artists. The album draws on samba as well as psychedelic rock and '90s clubland rhythms. It's all a lot of fun, though one wishes it could, at times, be a little less lighthearted. Listeners searching for more depth should check out last year...
...doing a very good job at it. Noting that the company has sold 125 million copies of the ubiquitous Windows 95 at an average price of $56, Schmalensee wondered why Microsoft wouldn't simply charge more if it could -- an extra 5 percent would earn the company a cool $173 million. That it didn't, he said, was evidence that competition exists...