Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaint that may resonate with millions of computer owners. Part of the problem is that expectations have been set too high. Stoll blasts what he calls "Internet hucksters burbling with falsehoods" about how the network is creating a global village, breaking down geographic boundaries and allowing new communities to grow up around shared interests and ideas...
...real world," Stoll writes, "is far more interesting, far more important, far richer, than anything you'll ever find on a computer screen." His advice to anyone spending more than a few hours online per day: Get out of the house! Meet your neighbors face to face! Grow tomatoes! Turn the computer off, for heaven's sake...
Their ranks are sure to grow. As the old guard of Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington and others begins to age, a host of newer faces is ready to supplant them. Among the hottest is Bridget Hall, a 17-year-old Texan who already has a lucrative Ralph Lauren contract. Nearly as omnipresent is the platinum-haired, preternaturally statuesque German model Nadja Auermann, featured on the cover of this month's W. Fashion watchers in New York last week, meanwhile, could hardly miss Irina, a striking 21-year-old Siberian, who appeared on the runway for no fewer than 18 shows...
...Bernatchez, who runs the 24-year-old Parisian modeling agency Pauline's, "but I could easily envision Meryl Streep doing it with her children. Models seem more untouchable. People need glamour; they need to dream." Says designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother was a little girl, she wanted to grow up and be Rita Hayworth or a ballerina. Now all the little girls want to be Linda Evangelista or Naomi Campbell. I don't think girls today want to grow up to be Jennifer Jason Leigh...
...unloved ninth child of a British army surgeon-general and a mother whom he learned to hate: when he was a baby they left him with foster parents, went to India and did not see him again until he was 10. By then, the form had set: he would grow up solitary, without close emotional connections to anyone, a natural exile. Tellingly, the most common recurrent image in his work until the end of the '50s was of the mother and child-the denied paradise of union with the breast, with the mother appearing sometimes as a figure of nurture...