Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the dust had cleared, and he had not received tenure in the English department, Rosenblatt left Harvard to become a writer...
...with immature, mediocre albums that are as much fun as a wet sandbox. Each album has its moments, but they are fleeting. The marvelous MMMBop is the only really substantial song on Hanson's album (it's one of two tracks on the CD produced by the highly regarded Dust Brothers). Some of Radish's tunes have catchy guitar riffs, but none of their songs catch fire. It is possible to simulate musical maturity; 14-year-old country crooner LeAnn Rimes does an excellent job. But Hanson, Radish and Lang lack her grace and discipline...
...sell her story, complete with interview, home videos and family snapshots. After a quick but brutal media race, the National Enquirer emerged victorious, handing over a six-figure sum to the Keh family, who told the magazine they would like to have another child. Then, after the dust had cleared, a new bidding war ensued--to buy from the Enquirer the rights to the video. Although abc's PrimeTime Live was initially the main contender, producers there grew uncomfortable with the perception of buying a story, and American Journal stepped in. Looks like Baby will get her new pair...
...feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live. I'm going to leave him in his own dust...
...heart of her novel lies in a funny, extraordinary other world where men, hit by lightning, start to read everything backward and women swallow silver dust to cure themselves of hallucinations (it doesn't work). The everyday magic of this invisible realm is given fiber by the hard facts of natural history she incorporates, and the sheer extravagance of Cuban thinking ("Dreams about carne asada can mean only one thing," a radio hostess opines: "that the caller should devote her life to God"). Writing in a voice not quite like any other, Garcia takes exuberant flight without ever taking leave...