Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popularity of biking took off after the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and it shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, the craze is becoming as much a social as an athletic phenomenon. Says Cyclist Lenny Goodman of Fountain Valley, Calif.: "I see a lot of people in really fancy clothing not doing much riding, just standing around talking...
...running to hide in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would actually call out, "Safe" to myself. When I was about 13, one local bully gave me nothing but grief all year long. He would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before it exploded. This was somebody I feared. He was my nemesis...
Parents may encourage such a switch. Says Vietnamese Refugee Le Giau, a resident of Fountain Valley, Calif.: "They should change their names because it's easier for them when they go to work." His three daughters, Hanh, Tien and Trang, are now known as Hannah, Christina and Jennifer. Food too can be a sensitive issue. "My brother wants to become American all the way," says Imelda Ortiz, 17, who left Mexico for Houston at age one. "He tells my mother to cook American food like meat loaf and potatoes. Instead we cook rice and beans and fajitas (skirt steak...
Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida. For three elderly gents in a St. Petersburg retirement home, the situation is happily, treacherously reversed: without looking for it, they find the Swimming Pool of Youth in a mansion next door. The place has been rented out to a quartet of folks with the musk of mystery about them. They are, of course, from outer space -- Antarea, to be exact. They have come to retrieve a score of their comrades, stranded during an earlier expedition, who have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast...
...Everything else I do is intangible. This time we have added something valuable and beautiful to the University," Bok said. He added that he hopes the campus is filled with such artwork, exemplified by Nevelson's work and what he termed the "wonderful" fountain in front of the Science Center, "within the next century...