Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually a complex construction. Think of a hammer, and your brain hurriedly retrieves the tool's name, its appearance, its function, its heft and the sound of its clang, each extracted from a different region of the brain. Fail to connect a person's name with his or her face, and you experience the breakdown of that assembly process that many of us begin to experience in our 20s--and that becomes downright worrisome when we reach...
...Gregory calls Rock "a genius." Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels says, "There's always one comic a whole generation imitates. Chris dominates now. There's no one as good." Then again, Jerry Seinfeld, a pal of Rock's, says this about Rock's hip-hopping in-your-face style: "It's the yelling that makes it special. It's very easy to hear what he's saying. Beyond that, I don't see anything special about it." Among comics, such joking put-downs are the ultimate display of respect...
...name in the public eye--even halfway around the world to New Zealand to meet with SIR EDMUND HILLARY. The White House has penciled in a meeting with the Mount Everest conqueror, 80, a living legend in his homeland and probably the most famous New Zealander ever (his face even graces the local $5 bill), during Clinton's state visit next week following the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Auckland. Sir Edmund won't, however, meet the Rodham Clinton Hillary, who is staying home. The White House insists that New York Senate politics has nothing to do with...
...band, composed of old rockers trying to re-establish themselves. In the end, that comes down to getting one of them, played by Michael Des Barres, who is exclusively interested in teenyboppers, to sexually service a potential backer, the hilariously voracious Beverly D'Angelo. The look on his face when he discovers the joys of mature sex could serve as the emblem of this sweet-tempered movie, which eventually touches--wryly, knowingly, forgivingly--on at least a dozen lives...
...part of a class trip to Europe, through their home computers. The class brought a digital camera and laptop with them to Germany and documented their visit on their web page. Harry Ash, father of 16-year-old traveler Brian, found it reassuring to see his son's smiling face from half a world away. "It gives me great comfort," Ash says, three days into the monthlong trip. "Brian's staying with a family that doesn't speak much English. This is new to him." Before their kids left, parents checked the site for scheduling information, a list of activities...