Word: garlic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...
...that she was different. The third of four children in one of the few Italian immigrant families in Littlehampton, Sussex (a fading Victorian beach resort her family dubbed "home of the newly wed and nearly dead"), she was treated like an alien by her classmates. "They never smelled garlic before we came," says Roddick. Her stepfather, who ran the first and only American-style diner in town, died when she was 10 -- a loss that was keener for Anita and her younger brother Bruno than they knew. Eight years later, their mother Gilda confessed the truth: the man they called...
...marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off. Don't roll your eyes. There are companies that can prove Olympic rub-off is more powerful than fried garlic. Consider: the athletic-shoe business alone generates $13 billion annually in retail worldwide sales. Shorts, socks, sweatbands and such are worth a couple of billion dollars more. So the prospect of Michael Jordan mounting the victory stand to accept his gold medal in basketball wearing togs provided by his very own sponsor, Nike, naturally had the folks at Reebok stamping their feet. Reebok purchased the exclusive modeling rights, they thought...
...that this summer's most pressing need -- for a funny sleeper -- has been fulfilled. Wrong. Or, as Buffy says, "Does the word duh mean anything to you?" It does to director Fran Rubel Kuzui, whose frenzied mistrust of her material is almost total. Somebody should have given her a garlic necklace -- or a Miltown -- and told her to chill...
Instead, I was indoors watching television. I hate prime time television; "Thursdays at 8" is meaningless in my vocabulary. But this was late-night television, and as I soon realized, it is oh-so-much worse. Eating ten slices of sausage and onion pizza with extra garlic would have given me pleasant dreams compared to the nightmares I had from the sludge that Gilbert Godfried, host of USA network's "Up All Night," force-fed me. Okay, I wasn't exactly force-fed. I could've gone to bed or read a book or taken a walk, but I didn...