Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national origin is never clear, nor does her array of vowel sounds provide much of a hint. But her spiritual roots are in California. She claims to be adept at "Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Chakra, Crystal Therapy, Essential Oils [her specialty], Flower Remedies, Colour Counselling-you name it." Personal growth, she assures the baffled George, "needs assistance. It needs sharing. Anything you want to share...
...Billy Crystal: An exorcism--who else but the devil could prompt the guy to buy front-row Clippers' season tickets...
...Diamond Age during the decades following World War II. Whatever was performed by the men at the gem's center, which was Washington, was amplified clearly around the country, redefining it. For those ambitious to lead (and those just keeping score), the paths to the center were crystal clear: the two main political parties, the military or Big Business. After the 1950s, one could add the major civil-rights groups. John F. Kennedy's rise through the Navy to Congress to the Senate was typical enough. Nobody needed a road map to find...
...public space in which Japanese could pay homage to ancient shrines and native traditions. Nowadays, it is a mess of illegal Iranian immigrants selling phony telephone cards and cocaine. The statue of Takamori Saigo, a Meiji-era samurai, is surrounded by junkies seeking out teriyaki (heroin) or shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine). Indeed, when Choco Bon- Bon, star of such Japanese porn classics as Tales of a Hard Banana, needs a fix, he goes shopping in Ueno and then goes home to the Hotel Queen DeGaulle to get high...
Replacing the Democratic liberals was a herd of Republicans ranging from the born-again to the libertarian, led by the china-and-crystal-sm ashing Congressman from suburban Atlanta, Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House. After a short burst of conciliation on election night, he seemed disinclined to throw Bill Clinton a rope. The President, he said, would be "very, very dumb" to try to stand in the way of the new conservative agenda. And to sharpen the point of the election, he called the Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks...