Word: dins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independence, but the country remains unstable, chafing under the weight of its depressed economy. We first entered Port Antonio in the midst of a political rally; the opposing candidate for prime minister stood with a microphone in the center square, shouting a stream of political slogans above the din of reggae music. A throng of people cheered restlessly. A few days later, the incumbent party won in a landslide...
...often seems that the world is getting noisier these days: in Japan, which may be a model of our future, cars and buses have voices, doors and elevators speak. The answering machine talks to us, and for us, somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young...
...sulky, smoldering Drew Barrymore. Poor CBS had to hatch a Fatal Attraction plot without the sex, since Joey has never admitted to doing anything interesting. But the real subject of the Amy-thon was the Long Island accent and attitude -- Brooklyn with flashier threads. Try this at school, kids: "Din I awrea'y tell you? You have sex wit chooah body. You make love wit chooah moind...
George Bush heard the call of history even over the din of White House staffers faxing their resumes to the Heritage Foundation, and he's had several weeks to gussy his presidency up. But Bush's danse macabre points to an unfavorable historical lesson...
...HARVARD DIN AND TONICS--The sheerpower of this smiling, hand-clapping a capellagroup is without equal. A safe, snappy alternativeto nuclear energy. Great shiny tuxes...