Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reader to Stanley Marsh, the whimsical gent who buried 10 baby blue Cadillacs on end near Amarillo, Texas, and to New Age purveyors of what he accurately calls hooey in Sedona, Ariz. For the refried Spanish architecture mandatory in the tonier quarter of Santa Fe, N.M., he borrows a glorious slur from an exasperated architect that the regional hothead Edward Abbey could have said more noisily but not better: Taco Deco...
...passion for the English Palladians (whoever they are), or for Ugaritic texts, or for the life and times of airborne spores. And while you might have difficulty convincing your parents or friends that airborne spores really are your calling, you should follow the soaring path to which those glorious spores will lead you. (This all sounded far more convincing when amplified by loudspeakers...
When Charles, now the 9th Earl Spencer, was introduced to most of the world from a pulpit in Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6, he did not seem to be a man innately diffident. As he paid tribute to his sister's glorious, pained life in the most watched eulogy in history, he inveighed against a rapacious press, denounced, however subtly, the monarchy's benighted stoicism and emerged suddenly as a controversial hero in the drama of Princess Diana's death--a powerful executor of her spiritual will...
...plan calls for 600 million by 2020. American firms such as AT&T and SPRINT are waiting to cash in, but Wu says the country won't open up to Candice Bergen just yet. Instead the Chinese government will continue to control the lucrative telecom monopoly. The most glorious numbers, bureaucrats realize, come with renminbi signs in front...
...Death of Diana: An emotional search for villains seems certain to test the decorum of the French justice system (TIME Daily)... Coverage of the unfolding tragedy is being followed by an extraordinary number of people (TIME Daily) ... From her glorious wedding to the slow disintegration of her marriage, Americans have been fascinated by Diana's every move (People Special...