Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corner table in a quiet Georgetown restaurant, the circles under her eyes are dark and deep. She's running an hour late; she's skipped a reception at the Czech embassy. Her ambassador in Paris is dying. It has been a long day. The Merlot comes in a big glass...
...during her four years as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., she had treated CNN, as she said, as the 16th member of the Security Council and generally proved to be the Administration's most canny foreign policy salesman. And Clinton loves grand symbolic gestures. "You show him a glass ceiling, and he'll pick up a rock," says a senior aide. Her gender was not enough to guarantee her the job, but it certainly secured her place on the List...
Most evenings after court, Baker and his team would adjourn to the law offices of Baker, Silberberg & Keener, housed in a huge, black-glass building next to the Santa Monica airport on Ocean Park Boulevard, just minutes from the courthouse. There, a four-module space called the "O.J. Archive" is filled with documents from the trial--and before. Johnnie Cochran, who had recommended his friend Baker to Simpson, sent over photocopies of all the defense documents in October 1995, immediately after it became clear that a civil suit was to be lodged. The Los Angeles district attorney's office, however...
...that quickly turned around: since 1991, hundreds of new Star Wars products have entered the market, from the usual action figures and trading cards to video games and high-end items like lithographs based on original production art or a 6-ft.-tall storm trooper ("made of pristine fiber glass" and available for only $4,995). As Star Wars Insider, an official fan-club publication, puts it: "There is more nifty stuff to buy [than ever before] if that's how you choose to express Star Wars-ness." Throw in a $2 billion marketing agreement with PepsiCo, and Star Wars...
...first two three-pointers and seven out of 13 in the first 20 minutes of play. It was no surprise the Crimson trailed at halftime; it was a surprise the game was so close--the best thing Harvard had going for itself was a strong showing on the offensive glass (11 in the first half, 17 on the game...