Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though it was a regional production, the Kahlua Boston Music Awards blended polished professionalism and colloquial surprises together for a fluid and captivating show. A 500-strong committee picked the 172 nominees who were voted into stardom by an equally-weighted combination of industry and public ballots. Considering that there were only 41 awards to present, the performer-to-award ratio was palpable. There was too much celebrity to congratulate. It was up to the audience to lap up the overflow...
...from 29% in the late 1970s. The mere fact of drinking soda is not a problem; it's how much a child drinks that can get her into trouble. The USDA determined that children who drink soda consume about 10 oz. a day, or 40% of their daily fluid intake. Most of that soda, of course, contains few if any nutrients and may displace healthier foods...
...early as 1872, German chemist Adolf von Baeyer was investigating the recalcitrant residue that gathered in the bottom of glassware that had been host to reactions between phenol (a turpentine-like solvent distilled from coal tar, which the gas-lighting industry produced in bulk) and formaldehyde (an embalming fluid distilled from wood alcohol). Von Baeyer set his sights on new synthetic dyes, however, not insulators. To him, the ugly, insoluble gunk in his glassware was a sign of a dead...
...never think of size as a disadvantage because women's hockey is still a very open, fluid game," Shewchuk says. "I played full-contact a couple of years ago with boys in Montreal who were 6'2 or bigger, so size doesn't intimidate me. When you're short you have to be fast, and I like to think of my smallness as sneakiness. I can slip behind people a little easier than taller players. In some ways I have to take two strides when everyone else only needs one, but you learn to get past that and I haven...
...just feel it? It's in the air. Go over to Harvard Square or into Faneuil Hall and you'll know what I'm talking about," she said. "Everything is so fluid, everyone is moving around and doing their thing. It's all so alive...