Word: fits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I got to my mailbox with a friend the other day, the little window was full. Engaging in a fit of revelry of the "somebody loves me" sort, I happily fished out a shiny new copy of Entertainment Weekly. My rapture was short-lived. As I turned to look at my friend, her eyebrows were raised. "You read that?" she said. My pithy reply? "Well, you know...sort...
...were in Europe, a place like Vail, Colo., would fit the exalted category of "ski circus," a place so sprawling and opulent as to be almost a sovereignty unto itself. But last week that rather complacent empire was startled by a message from a tiny band. Early Monday morning someone set Vail Mountain ablaze. Seven fires spread along a mile-long ridge overlooking the tony ski village, demolishing a restaurant, a patrol building and a picnic shelter and impairing several lifts. No one was hurt, but the damage totaled $12 million...
...doesn't have a press office (or headquarters or even a website), so it was hard to know exactly what to make of the self-proclaimed terrorists. The fires fit the front's m.o., and allies of the group didn't deny it was involved. Said Katie Fedor, spokeswoman for a sympathetic organization called the Animal Liberation Front: "Economic sabotage is justified when we have large corporations whose interests are protected because of their money...
...bolder than even she had intended, but a good fit--nearly the shade of her husband Miguel's Ford Thunderbird. And it certainly caught the attention of the Joneses. "The neighbors didn't like it. They took out chairs, put them in the driveway and just looked," says Sanchez. "The expression on their faces wasn't nice." It was gilt by association. The neighbors tried to be fair (it was Sanchez's home, after all) but felt as if their own homes had been redecorated. "Oooh," says neighbor Olivia Sandoval. "It's no good for the block. All the houses...
...result of this distortion, she said black women are forced to fit into categories created by the images of high-profile women...