Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Transportation Safety Board revealed in hearings held in Baltimore last week, minuscule can mean sinister. Calmly, patiently, safety-board explosion expert Merritt Birky explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island--a tank that then exploded, destroying the plane and killing all 230 people aboard...
...their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing but E-mail. I conducted an informal survey, and this turned out to be pretty much the case. Take Donna Rice Hughes, the former gal pal of Gary Hart, who has reconstituted herself as an antipornography activist with the group Enough Is Enough. She said she used the Net strictly for research and E-mail. Nothing recreational? "Gosh, no," she said. "If I'm going to recreate, I'm going to go play tennis...
Listen to Hunt's colleagues speak of her, and you may wonder if she is not as good as it gets but too good to be true. Nicholson: "She's a juggernaut of ability. You can lean on her. She's a great gal, as we used to say. She's a babe." Reiser: "She's a mix of two powerful things: she's deliberate, very precise, knows what she wants; and she's really game, willing to take risks. As an actress, she's really inspiring." Victor Levin, executive producer of Mad About You: "She can talk about anything...
...letters to the seductive, sequin-clad club owner Olivia (Vered Metson '01). Complications arise as Olivia and Orson both fall in love with "Charlie," Sebastian falls in love with Olivia and Viola falls in love with Orson. This being a comedy, however, each character gets the desired guy or gal in the end, and Sebastian and Viola are happily reunited--just as in Twelfth Night...
...clear from the get-go that Titanic would cost a bundle. Cameron, 43, built a 775-ft. replica of the ship, 10% smaller than the real one, and a 17 million-gal. tank in which to sink it. The film was shot at a 40-acre complex Fox set up in Rosarito, Mexico. And Cameron got the studio to pay for repeated dives to the site of the actual wreck, where he deployed cameras specifically designed for his exploration...