Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will tell," she said. Hoster scooted to the door, opened it and implored him to leave. He strode to the door, shut it, grabbed her by the waist and lifted her off the floor. "What a nice body you have," he said. After 20 minutes, and half a dozen requests, he finally left...
...example, observe the $35 "Always and Forever" package, which includes a plush 9" teddy bear, a one-pound heart shaped box of chocolates, a half dozen cupcakes and chocolate cookies (gourmet, nonetheless) and seven balloons. Harvard catering promises the ensemble will "show your love is forever,"--not false advertising considering remnants of the chocolates will probably linger somewhere under your futon for all eternity...
...that everybody, of every age, wanted to see once. The big hits of the '70s--Airport, Love Story, The Godfather, The Sting, Jaws--were broad based, reflecting the audience's demographic democracy. Star Wars devised a novel equation: here was a film every teenage boy wanted to see a dozen times. Lucas spoke, from his bionic heart, to the American boy's love for shiny gadgets, spiffy uniforms, authoritative-sounding technotalk and a hot rod that shoots really cool laser blasts. The film certified a new wisdom: megamovies were now the province of the young male...
Swinging from vines in the 1930s and '40s, Johnny Weissmuller was King of the Jungle. But on the ground he often played straight man to his sidekick, Cheeta. More than a dozen chimpanzees took the role, and the last was genial Jiggs. Born in Liberia, he was brought to the U.S. by Hollywood trainer Tony Gentry along with sister Susie--another Cheeta portrayer--who died last month at 64. Gentry's nephew Dan Westfall, a theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan...
...arguments began when the husband noticed the delivery of a dozen red roses to his wife from an unknown admirer. Days later, the war over the roses ended in carnage. Steven Stumpf, 22, arrived on Jan. 20 at his parents' home in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to discover his mother Marlene, 47, in a pool of blood in the kitchen. His stepfather Raymond, host of a local cable shopping show, was on the dining-room floor, bleeding from what would be described as self-inflicted wounds. According to the district attorney's office, Marlene Stumpf "suffered a large cutting wound...