Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months, more than 5 million bargain hunters looking for easier ways to shop 24/7 have visited the site, many attracted by the company's ads in magazines like Vogue and GQ or prompted by links from Women.com AOL and other popular Net portals. Bluefly's CEO, Ken Seiff, increased gross sales 140% in the past quarter to $1.1 million and attracted a $10 million investment from Soros Private Equity Partners. Without waiting for a profit, he has used the instant feedback that the Internet provides to renovate his virtual store, exploding his product images to 400% of what they were...
...GROSS GIFTS Tired of reading about the latest company to sell its mundane wares online? The folks at giftcrap.com feel your ennui: their site has links to bizarre gift ideas instead. How about Cheddar-cheese-flavored worms, below, or a cremation urn shaped like a golf bag? For the jerk in your life (their words, not ours), you can get an alarm clock that wakes him or her with 60 seconds of verbal abuse. This site is not recommended for the humor impaired...
...something else attracted critics and the first knowing viewers to Blair Witch, and that is the film's bold sense of withholding. Horror, after all, is a genre that gravitates to the lurid edge. The jaded audience wants more--more teasing sex, more gross-out gore. So directors make their young minor characters play the sin-and-repent game: you have sex, then you die horribly. Makeup maestros like Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead) dream up (or nightmare up) grotesque faces and prostheses. Screeching violins italicize the killer's abrupt entrance as he raises his knife behind the fair...
...first few years of life. In The Myth of the First Three Years, John Bruer, president of the McDonnell Foundation, based in St. Louis, Mo., argues that much of the advice parents are getting about how to make their very young kids smarter and more talented is based on gross exaggerations of brain science. So, he says, is the notion, suggested by some advocacy groups, that brain development all but shuts down after age three. Too much focus on this so-called critical period, he claims, in the form of programs like Head Start, may thus be misguided...
...screen average gross of Eyes Wide Shut through its second weekend...