Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the last week, we have repainted London in two colors, black and white. There is no lilac, no green, not even the red of the city's famous doubledecker buses. Or, perhaps, these hues exist, but no one notices. Everyone is too busy reading faces--the colors of faces, more exactly--whether they are black or white...
...town needs an identity, or it doesn't exist. Something nobody else can claim...
...have resisted, until now, pointing out the obvious. But given the nature of the news emanating from the nation's capital over the past year, there exist a host of new promotional opportunities in Clinton for the 16th annual Testicle Festival this September. New fields of competition. Look-alike contests. Caravans rolling in from D.C. We can think of one person in particular who would make a great festival queen...
...Gong Show is topped only by the short-lived Three's a Crowd, "the game that determines who knows a husband best, his wife or his secretary." Match Game is always packed with bawdy jokes ("I said 'buns'!") and the best of those '70s stars who seemed to exist solely on game shows. Where have you gone Charles Nelson Reilly, Jo Anne Worley, Brett Somers, Nipsey Russell, Arte Johnson and Jamie Farr...
MOSCOW: Call it good Kremlin, bad Kremlin. The last time Boris Yeltsin addressed parliament about passing tax reforms, he threatened to dissolve it. Friday, beleaguered prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko tried a softer sell: He appealed to its good nature. "The financial market has practically ceased to exist," Kiriyenko said. "Social tension is growing in society, which naturally is not helpful to stabilization." Kiriyenko pleaded with the recalcitrant Duma to speed passage of a series of new tax laws that Russia needs to get a desperately needed multibillion-dollar bailout from...