Word: crossbreeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"A-men!" the audience intones. Since 1988, when Congress opened the way for Indian reservations to set up full-scale gambling, casinos have moved from being the private preserve of two states--Nevada and New Jersey--into the American mainstream. With 126 Native American tribes reaping profits from gaming, commercial...
What Robin Williams does with his mind -- rev it up, kick it around, bend it and blend it, find witty twists at lightning speed -- Carrey does with his body. He walks in sections, as if he had been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an...
Maybe it's just just me; maybe lots of heterosexuals born since World War II really do love musicals. But I have never knowingly hummed a show tune. I take it only on faith that Rodgers and Hammerstein were geniuses. Ethel Merman's voice was powerful, sure, and powerfully annoying...
Poor CBS, the network that led the fight to get the new cable-compensation law passed, is still scrambling for its place in the new order. According to sources familiar with the network's negotiations, what had seemed two weeks ago a done deal -- CBS wouldlaunch a cable public affairs...
Every industrial revolution starts with a great notion. In the Smithsonian Institution, resting only a short stroll away from Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, is a newer icon of American ingenuity: Stumpjumper, the first mountain bike. A crossbreed of rugged utility and European racing technology, the Stumpjumper scurried...