Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slightly oddball but deadly serious. The power of the powerless is shaking Eastern Europe again as tens of thousands of Bulgarians fill the streets of Sofia each day to show just how fed up they are with their government of national disaster, a batch of renamed but unreconstructed communists who still balk at basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says...
...Paseo Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, for a midday party for honor-roll students. To the school's surprise, Pizza Hut, the biggest pizza purveyor in town--and in the country--turned it down, saying the area was unsafe. A local chain, Westport Pizza, was more than happy to fill the order. Says honors dance major Glenndalynn Frazier, 17: "I knew we were supposed to have Pizza Hut, but it didn't stop us from having a good party...
...JUICE? Preschoolers who guzzle as little as 12 oz. of fruit juice a day tend to be fatter or shorter than their peers. Why? At the expense of more nutritious foods, kids fill up on liquid that's packed with sugars, albeit natural ones...
...Ditka, at 57, is five years a TV analyst, a veteran of hip and heart ailments who still has trouble with the fact that Bears refugee Jim Harbaugh turned into a decent quarterback. But the Saints, who never change, will need all of that old magic to fill the Superdome for even one non-January game. This Ditka will clearly have to be full-size...
MARNE-LA-VALEE, France: It was a scheme even Sartre would have appreciated. Build a massive American theme park a short drive from Paris. Fill it with happy, smiling faces, quaint rides and catchy, inoffensive music and wait for the cultured, sophisticated Europeans to flock to it. It was absurd, a sure failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey...