Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-one Julys have come and gone since Buffett scored his only Top 10 single, Margaritaville, but every year Parrotheads across the country flock to hear his island-inflected folk-pop tunes, drawn from three decades' worth of albums and played pretty much the same way night after night, year after year. "He's like an old friend you haven't seen in a while, but it's comfortable," says David Jahn, 51, a hospital administrator with parrots painted on his toenails. "No surprises...
Glover and Gibson take their characters far beyond the domain of normal sequel heroes. Murtaugh has always been the quintessential head of household, guarding his flock; Glover's understated performance captures the essence of a cautious man. Riggs has cleaned up and settled down since his first days as Murtaugh's partner, so Gibson doesn't have the crazed Vietnam vet side of his character to play with like he did in the original, but Gibson is equally adept with his characters mellowed thoughtfulness...
...everyone is fighting. Many, especially younger children, flock to this American invasion and sit catatonic in front of the screen as the English dialogue is matched by Hebrew and often Arabic or Russian subtitles. Hours on end they sit, watching-and learning. Dylan Mckay, the Fresh Prince and Kramer have a new job on their hands here: they are teaching English around the clock, more thoroughly and at a younger age than the Israeli school system manages to do. The children soak up the language and with it what they see as American styles, dress and mannerisms...
...largest New England state, Maine, boasts both a beautiful, lighthouse-studded coastline and majestic inland mountain peaks. The AT terminates at Mt. Katahdin, and shoreline ports at Kennebunk and Bar Harbor draw thousands of visitors annually. Tourists also flock to Freeport to shop at L.L. Bean...
Frank Sinatra has received far too many tributes already. Even before his death last month there was the 80th-birthday hoopla of 2 1/2 years ago, followed by the flock of recently published books circling, vulture-like, in clear anticipation of his passing. At this point any recounting of his accomplishments--his unassailable greatness as a singer, his somewhat more assailable greatness as an actor, his impeccable taste as a curator of the great American songbook, his ancillary talents as both philanthropist and thug, his status as a totem of midcentury masculinity--inevitably takes on a dutiful, ritualistic...