Word: grayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some wondered how so much power could fit into a single plastic cartridge and others mulled over what drug-fortified madness put two Italian plumbers in a world of angry, portly mushrooms, the rest of us stopped thinking altogether and rocked the Power Pad. That Power Pad, an ungainly gray spread dotted with red and blue circles (with white shine marks for pseudo-3-D flair) was the portal wherein one could enter into the high-octane dope-pumping wonderland of events like the “110 Meter Hurdles” and “Long Jump...
...never sat next to a sailor. I assume he is conservative and, after a Long Island iced tea, I begin making inappropriate jokes. Something to the effect of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” The gray matter at that table was already saturated with alcohol before I arrived and after another round of shots I’m serenaded with Happy Birthday. I’m supposed to hate this and turn red, but I alternate between feigning embarrassmentand mouthing along...
John Travolta's raven mane is nearly as integral to his appeal as his dance-floor-ready hips and dimpled chin. But in A Love Song for Bobby Long, a drama set in New Orleans and due next month, the Pulp Fiction star goes gray to portray an alcoholic literature professor befriended by SCARLETT JOHANSSON. This is no silver-haired sophisticate like Tom Cruise's assassin in this summer's Collateral. "Bobby Long is bruised fruit," says Travolta, 50, of his character. "Kind of decrepit." As for the premature aging, no biggie. "It's never been an issue...
...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...
Tucked away in the by-lanes of Baghdad's upscale Yarmouk district, the Omar al-Mukhtar Mosque is an unimpressive structure. Gray cement and concrete, it boasts no glittering dome, no grand courtyard, no elaborate stucco work on the ceiling. The loudspeakers on its single minaret are set at a modest volume, and the muezzin's call to prayer barely travels a few blocks. "We like to keep things low-key," says Abdul Karim al-Nasseri, the mosque's soft-voiced imam. "People come here for quiet contemplation...