Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March, for example, the University's $113million investment in a pair of Crystal City, Va.,office buildings was placed in serious jeopardywhen the U.S. Navy, the buildings' major tenant,announced plans to move within the next severalyears...
...March, for example, the University's $113million investment in a pair of Crystal City, Va.,office buildings was placed in serious jeopardywhen the U.S. Navy, the buildings' major tenant,announced plans to move within the next severalyears...
...competitors in the gear market: their sports are so difficult to learn that most players spend their lives gazing wistfully up at mediocrity's underside. Repeated discouragement, of course, leads to repeated equipment purchase. But gear possibilities are poor; you don't really want moving parts or a liquid crystal display on a racquet or a three wood...
...moon materials in the last couple of years. High-impact modulus- polymer-visco-graphite is just as good as it ever was, but the new has worn off. This year's Prince entry in the country-club weapons race is called the Extender. Made of graphite and liquid crystal polymer, the Extender is bigger than the usual big-head (116 sq. in. vs. 110), and its oval shape is supposed to give it a bigger sweet spot, for those of us with shaky hand-eye coordination. Brand loyalty wobbles here; there's an outfit called Weed that makes...
...patterns. As he moves closer to the mainstream, Letterman may find the mainstream has met him more than halfway. Letterman's hip, ironic, show-biz- hardened sensibility has, in the decade since he arrived, moved to the center of the culture in everything from sitcoms to Spy magazine. Billy Crystal used to poke fun at Tonight Show blather on Saturday Night Live ("You look mahvelous"); now he hosts the Academy Awards. Knockoffs of Letterman's Top 10 lists have turned up everywhere but on the backs of cereal boxes. Leno himself has appropriated, clumsily, Letterman-style bits (Jay too makes...