Word: fevered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most of us can recall being so immersed in a fantasy world that it changed the way we behaved. At age 11, I developed a case of phantom scarlet fever after reading about Beth's brave death in Little Women. As for TV, I can't watch the local news in New York City without becoming convinced that I'm going to be hit by falling construction debris. Crazy? Maybe. But you won't see me walking under scaffolding in Manhattan...
...fever has spread to the U.S. Within a month of its debut last September, the TV series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with...
...second semester reading period. Spring fever is in the air, and we lucky Harvard students have two weeks to relax and enjoy the warm weather. What could be better than Frisbee in the Yard or sunning on the MAC quad--not to mention the opportunity to redeem oneself by catching up on all that reading not done in the last three months? By the time finals come around, we'll all be incredibly well-studied and might even have great tans to boot...
Jousting. Sky-high slides and long lines for Sno-Cones. Free fried dough. Violent Femmes and the Velcro challenge. Saturday afternoon in the MAC Quad offered Harvard students a chance to experience all of these activities and events along with 3,000 other college kids with spring fever. For a minute, we almost thought we were at Brown...
What to Look For Michael Crichton fever at its most expensive--the film cost well over $100 million. Antonio Banderas stars as an emissary kidnapped by warriors. Banderas soon joins the tribe in their battle against these strange mysterious creatures (sci-fi anyone?) that consume everything in their paths. The still aristocratic Omar Sharif (of Funny Girl fame) also stars. Release has been delayed several months because of flaws in production. It's also been rumored that the original director John McTiernan was let go in the middle of filming with Dr. Crichton himself taking over directorial duties. The Buzz...