Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before everyone has come to a stop on the flat, four-lane straightaway, a Toyota and a Honda have nosed up to an invisible starting line. A fat kid in a ball cap stands between them and raises his arms, then drops them. Engines scream and rubber burns. Speeds approach 100 m.p.h., and 1,320 ft. later, the Toyota's rear lights flash, signaling the winner...
...hellzapoppin love affair with a much younger Diane Hills, to whom he wrote letters, as did Hills' father (less affectionately), as did Bratby's wife Jean Cooke (less affectionately still). "I understand from my husband," wrote Cooke, "the man with whom you fornicate on the floor of your flat..." All 25 boxes of the highly charged mess are now in some stranger's possession...
...years back to become the world's leading PC provider. Last year the company, based in Houston, brought home computing to the masses by popularizing the sub-$1,000 PC. Digital, a legendary innovator in the 1970s and '80s and a legendary disaster in the '90s (it flat missed the PC revolution) had few options. Now Compaq can couple its manufacturing and marketing savvy with Digital's high-end technology and global sales and service reach. Compaq will rely less on hardware, an advantage in an industry whose prices continue to erode. "This gets Compaq out of being...
...Wednesday night it was time for someone to take charge, and it was certainly not going to be the President. He was wiped out, flat on his back, depressed by the enormity of what faced him. That collapse was by itself taken as a confession of guilt even by those who had kept the faith for years. While the President lay dead tired on the sofa, Hillary went...
...rock band Smash Mouth's upbeat remake of War's Why Can't We Be Friends? Goldie wasn't the only influence, of course, but the sea change has been profound: if you listen to Yield, the grandfatherly new album by alternative-rock pioneers Pearl Jam, it sounds almost flat-footed next to all the rock-'n'-roll booty shaking that's going on elsewhere...