Word: dashes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...purpose. "It took me a while, but I finally found something that someone my size can be very good at," says Haworth. "It's an individual and straightforward sport: either you can lift the weight or you can't." Haworth uses her speed (she can run the 40-yd. dash in an NFL-like 5 sec.) and her power (she can jump an NBA-like 34 in.) to routinely, and repeatedly, lift a groaning bar with a couple hundred pounds. Buff football players pass by, not even bothering to hide their admiration. In competition she has lifted...
...beautifully understated; its characters earn big laughs with the subtlest wrinkle of a brow, sobs with a stifled sigh. In a season of nine-figure budgets, the movie was made for chicken feed ($42 million). It also boasts an accent that is defiantly English--Yorkshire, even--with a dash of Yank bravado from visiting star Mel Gibson...
...original "Shaft" had the audacity to celebrate black love on the screen in its full sweaty, sensual glory. Shaft was a stud who always left a lady dreamily satisfied even if he had to dash out and fight when she just wanted to be held. And even - horrors! - white women wanted, and got, a piece of that action. His nephew, by contrast, despite a few lines of conversational innuendo, is remarkably sex-starved...
...TRUCKERS Interstates will have "smart" lanes enabling computer-driven vehicles to travel bumper to bumper at high speeds. Suburbia will decongest by using bottleneck sensors in cars to suggest alternate routes, and while you can kiss those meter maids goodbye, expect tickets to appear on your virtual dash...
That means more debate. No more mad dash for Super Tuesday, after which the anointed can sit back and indulge the party's remaining primary voters in smug contentment. Every state would count, so even the front-runner would have to dig his heels in till the end--sweating, debating, persuading. Since smaller states are usually cheaper to campaign in, gone too would be the financial blitz in which a big-money candidate splurges early to knock his or her opponent out at the start. The Delaware Plan would make losing the first few primaries, currently an automatic disqualification, politically...