Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...climactic fashion show and the credits roll, we're sorry to bid ciao to Mizrahi's playful face and fashions. "Unzipped" may not be an 80-minute crash course in how to be a fashion designer, but it's a compelling "gesture" to a grand master of style...
...downside is that these complex systems can easily become unstable given the slightest change in conditions. That, according to some experts, could explain why the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. According to this notion, the popular theory that the cause was a comet crash is only half right: the comet did crash, but its effect was to destabilize dino behavior, rendering the creatures unable to compete with mammals, those hairy little animals with big ambitions. This is just the sort of behavioral disruption (induced by disease rather than a comet impact) that leads to a disintegration...
...called "Sarah!" and he saw her, somewhere behind him, just as the world spun crazily again, and the trailer was upended with a crash. Now the trailer was lying on its roof; Malcolm started crawling along the ceiling, trying to reach Sarah. He looked up at the lab equipment locked down on the lab benches, above his head. Liquid dripped onto him from a dozen sources. Something stung his shoulder. He heard a hiss, and realized it must be acid...
...automatic and displayed on the world's longest rigid, backlit video screen. Every aspect of the operation is overseen from a computerized command center on the fifth level. From there, high above the bowling floor, executive director Reg Pearson looks down on an ongoing tournament in full swing. The crash of bowling balls, the staccato of falling pins, the clatter of automatic pin-setting machines: the din is unimaginable. "It sounds like a cash register," Pearson says. "I love it." The sound echoes around Reno, which is being renewed by bowling...
Education is almost as ill-served. Leon Brave Heart, like an estimated 50% of the tribe, had an alcohol problem; it caused him to drop out of school. But when his father died of cirrhosis of the liver and his mother was killed in a car crash, he dried out and returned to school. In San Francisco, he joined the Job Corps, specializing in cooking and culinary studies. Now the 22-year-old works at a tiny convenience store on the reservation while caring for 10 extended-family members who share a shack and a trailer. Brave Heart wants...