Word: dig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most anticipated Hollywood movies of the season, the talk is of worms and nothingness. About halfway through Seven Years in Tibet, which will open Wednesday to considerable hoopla, Brad Pitt is trying to construct a building. But there is a problem. His workers will not dig a foundation, because they don't want to kill any worms. Why? As Pitt's character is informed: "In a past life, this humble worm could have been your mother." Meanwhile, in Martin Scorsese's Kundun, scheduled to open on Christmas Day, the protagonist muses, "My enemies will be nothing. My friends will...
...molecule," she says. "How do you make juice out of that?" She did, by gamely examining every aspect and angle of serotonin to produce an informative and visually arresting package. Previously a design director at the Boston Globe, Hoffman doesn't miss the daily deadlines. "Now I can dig more deeply," she says, although at TIME that can mean digging deep into the night. "Cynthia gets to the core of every story she is working on," says art director Arthur Hochstein, "and presents it in the simplest, clearest way to the reader...
...assuming the deal goes through) would have its Bronx cheering section. But the truth is that the usual AOLer's litany of service outages, tortoise-slow E-mail delivery and frequent busy signals is really of "the food stinks and the portions are too small" variety. Cassell tries to dig up meatier bones. He's written about the abuse of those ubiquitous "Five Hours Free!" diskettes that flood the mail. He's written about AOL hackers and AOHell, a program that helps delinquents steal members' passwords. And he's chronicled the AOL censorship policy that led to the banning...
...first two, we eventually learn, were incestuously abused by their father when they were children. Rose, who has breast cancer, has never forgotten his long-ago depredations, but they have been buried deep in Ginny's unconscious, from which her sister is determined to dig them out. All this is terribly up to date, "relevant" according to the vulgar standards set for us by the endlessly instructing voices of media shrinks...
...Paleolithic era. The Speaker may not necessarily be offended by that, given his fondness for fossils. Gingrich was able to indulge his fondness last week, first taking part in a debate on how predatory Tyrannosaurus rex really was (Gingrich's view: very) and then participating in a dig in Paradise Valley, Mont., where, under the eye of local celebrity Peter Fonda, he actually found a dinosaur bone. And no, his aides didn't bury it there for him to find. It took several discouraging hours of picking at rocks and soil under the hot sun. But the Speaker was exuberant...