Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also plans to crack down on teenage smokers, who currently spend $1.2 billion dollars per year on smoke-filled treats. Even though one million teenagers get hooked on cigarettes every year and one-third of them will eventually die as a result of their addiction, the heavy hand of government should not be meddling in the lucrative tobacco industry...
...Yeltsin were to die, the presidency would pass to Victor Chernomyrdin, Russia's Prime Minister, who more than anyone appears to be Yeltsin's chosen successor. Chernomyrdin would be required to call a presidential election within three months. Matters would be less clear if Yeltsin remained alive but incapacitated. In this case also, Chernomyrdin would become acting President, but the Russian constitution does not spell out clearly when a President may be judged too ill to perform his job. A power struggle among ambitious rivals would almost surely ensue, with the fragile constitution itself only one of the potential casualties...
...rain to bless the crops) and terror (snowstorms, earthquakes and avalanches) to Inca culture. Did she march bravely to the center of the ceremonial platform, or was she dragged there in a drugged stupor? Was she killed by the priests who brought her, or was she left to die from exposure, cold and very alone...
...Jazz Hot), with additional numbers by Frank Wildhorn. It's touching, and a little sad, to watch this woman who, nearly 40 years ago, crested to fame in what remains arguably the greatest Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, now throwing herself into songs that have no afterlife; their echoes die even as you're walking up the aisle toward the lobby...
Araki is the latest to emerge from the underground of gay filmmakers, after Todd Haynes (Safe) and Gus Van Sant (To Die For). But Hollywood will find it hard to assimilate him. The Doom Generation is Araki's fifth feature, and his way of maturing is to get more ferocious, with a twisted smile on his face. The road-movie plot is similar to The Living End's: a dishy, disturbed guy hitches a ride and raises hell with guns and other toys. The troublemaker is Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech)--call him X, as in sex--and when he hooks...