Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young people who sold their souls--or more precisely, six months of their lives--to MTV. From complete personal profiles to in-depth analyses of seminal Real World events (i.e., the firing of Montana from the After-School Program in the Boston season), Solomon and Carter dive headlong into the magic of the TV show that exists both as half-soap opera and half-documentary. Also included are fact sheets about the locales, a minute-by-minute account of a typical Real World day, snippets from the cast member's personal journals and a dictionary of Real World terms...
...Hodge also have nice taste in dream sequences. There's nothing here that quite equals McGregor's dive down the toilet in Trainspotting, but there's a dance number, to the antique strains of Beyond the Sea, that begins in a karaoke bar and ends in a romantic delirium that's just wonderful. And not at all the sort of thing you'd expect to arise out of the sere Utah landscape where the fugitives have taken refuge from Celine's implacably pursuing...
WASHINGTON: Almost completely obscured by Monday's market dive was a bit of good economic news: The federal deficit has shrunk to $22.6 billion, the lowest since 1974. While Wall Street screamed, President Clinton was before a benign crowd at the Democratic Leadership Council, proudly bearing the news that uncomfortable first-term taxes and a chest-beating economy had driven the number down to a fraction of what even administration officials had predicted...
...over a long period could mean that you won't have as much money in retirement as you thought, or that you'll have to work longer, and if you need money during the worst of the drought, you'll have to sell at the bottom. A serious market dive of 40% could sap consumer confidence and bring on a recession, always tough on those who have been taking on debt...
Last night, less than a full day after police dive teams recovered the body of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley from a Maine river, more than 600 friends, neighbors and concerned citizens crowded into Curley's Cambridge school to question school, police and local officials and try to come to terms with the tragedy...