Word: floods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Congratulations on that beautiful Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman cover [CINEMA, July 5]. Be not dismayed by the flood of letters you get that will berate you as a purveyor of pornography. People who abhor the sight of beautiful human bodies are possessed by either a dirty mind or envy. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...
Though bands marketed for a college audience are not ruled by the top-40 station formula-create pop hit, flood market, wait for other pop hit-Belle and Sebastian and a number of college bands are constantly crossing over into the larger sea of alternative/main-stream pop. With the success of the group's previous two albums, The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998) and If You're Feeling Sinister (1997), Matador is bold enough to officially release the first album, which late last year was going at auctions for more than $600. Both were acclaimed by music and fashion magazines...
...Yorkers in a crowd. How can I put this nicely? We're a distinctive group. Yes, New Yorkers are rude, and damn it, we're proud of it. We're loud, we talk quickly and we have a tendency to run over the slowpoke tourists that flood our city. And why not? As residents of the greatest city in the world we tend to look down at everyone and everywhere else...
...Yorker in a crowd. How can I put this nicely? We're a distinctive group. Yes, New Yorkers are rude, and damn it, we're proud of it. We're loud, we talk quickly and we have a tendency to run over the slowpoke tourists that flood our city. And why not? As residents of the greatest city in the world we tend to look down at everyone and everywhere else...
...years, the N.A.A.C.P. has lamented the flood of handguns into African-American communities. Yet the nation's oldest civil rights organization has had little impact on curbing the proliferation. But the shooting tragedies in Littleton, Colo., and Conyers, Ga., plus the recent court victory against gun manufacturers in New York, may give the organization the political firepower it needs to advance its public-safety agenda...