Word: crusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite@Home's broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite@Home already knows your credit-card details and address. Just sit back and wait for the calories...
...wonderful story about a woman (Mia Farrow, in a role no one else could have played) whose deadened upper-crust marriage threatens to crush her until she discovers the power of her imagination, courtesy of a mysterious doctor. Along the way, they are some psychedelic sequences involving invisibility and flying. The liberation of Farrows character is mostly handled with nimble comedy, but its also serious enough to prove that Allens movies arent hopelessly mired in misogyny...
...famous Polo Grounds in New York City, in front of a record 10,000 spectators. By 1902, at Yale Field, 30,000 showed up to watch Yale win 23-0. The hard-crunching action of the sport of football combined with the natural competitive fire of upper-crust Ivy League culture combined to create an event that players, students and alumni could look forward to each year. It was a precursor to any college football Big Game of today; Florida/Florida State; Michigan/Ohio State; Stanford/Cal--they're all descendants of the original Game, a test to determine the best team...
This means that in an economic--if not a political--sense, we have become a single, enormous population. The system in which we are living, extracting our energy and other supplies, is global: the totality of Earth's atmosphere, its waters, its soils and crust, and all its living things. This is the sum total of all the world's local ecosystems--ecosystems we have allowed to decay as we have chosen (quite successfully!) to live outside them...
...cast personifies four adaptations to a harsh dating scene--detachment (inquisitive Carrie), aggression (lusty Samantha), caution (timid Charlotte) and neurosis (tense Miranda, played by Cynthia Nixon with a smile as brittle and quivery as the crust on a creme brulee). They're looking for not just love but also victory, over male entitlement, over a culture that despises older single women and over myths they can't compete with. In a pointed scene, the four watch a video in which a woman climaxes two seconds into a sex scene. "No wonder men are so lost," Miranda says. "They have...