Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joke with the tabloid reporters who watched his every move, was invariably polite to those who approached him on the street, and showed elaborate courtesy to the frantic, swooning women who mobbed him. He sent a hilarious note to New York magazine writer Michael Gross, who had profiled him against his will, saying he was glad the issue with his face on the cover was off the newsstands, so "I can stop glaring at myself glaring back...
Stuck on You, a comedy co-starring Woody Allen as half of a conjoined-twin pair, is being developed by gross-out auteurs Peter and Bobby Farrelly...
...same thing. Granted, it doesn't have the TV makers or politicians behind it. But I'm thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter to let the kids watch only programs we've approved. If we have to have a V chip in our homes, it might as well...
...succeeded in putting itself on the international travel-and-tourism map. After Nelson Mandela's election in 1994, the number of regional and overseas holiday visitors increased 50%, to more than 5 million a year. Tourism and related industries, which contributed an estimated $11 billion to the country's gross domestic product last year, expect to quadruple that figure in the next decade...
...might very well have lost a chunk of my breast for no reason. Instead I had a quick, simple procedure. Fully conscious, with only a local anesthetic, I lay facedown on an examining table with a hole in it for my left breast. Then my physician, Dr. Joshua Gross of New York's Beth Israel Hospital, a leading expert on Mammotomes, located the calcifications with a digital X ray. Through an incision no bigger than a match head, he inserted a hollow probe. Within minutes the suspicious calcifications were vacuumed out and snipped off with a rotating blade, ready...