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...keynote that includes a live appearance by George Lucas (playing hookey from the script for the next Star Wars movie), an extended solo by guitar demigod Steve Vai, and the public debut of both the Playstation2 and a digital music player barely bigger than a stick of gum? Apparently it's not that hard - if you have an operating system named after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torvalds Holds Forth at Comdex | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...hold things together with shoestring and gum for one more year," Darling said last month, "but this is the last year that it can be done...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Seton Proposes Term-Bill Fee Hike | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Back in her bathroom, Angela turns to splay her fingers under the hand sanitizer. Next she picks up her DentiGuard toothbrush, which checks for signs of gum disease and measures her bone density while it brushes her teeth. During the course of her morning routine, a total of 85 microscopic sensors, in everything from her hairbrush to the medicine cabinet, will keep tabs on her health. Most days she doesn't even notice their presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Robots Make House Calls? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...want not" hasn't had much influence on 276 million Americans. In 1997 we gave a collective heave-ho to more than 430 billion lbs. of garbage. That means each man, woman and child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Make Garbage Disappear? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...they're sexy, they're sporty, their enthusiasm may even be a little scary, but don't you dare call them the Spice Girls. First of all, they're women, not girls, and they are anything but bubble-gum pop vixens. Aside from their aforementioned bare-it-all costumes, the flygirls plan on doing the scene where Jesus comes before Herod in dominatrix-chic, complete with fishnet stockings and rhinestone brassieres (the scene was often treated in previous productions as a cross between a vaudeville soft-shoe and soft-core porn as envisioned by the cast of The Rocky Horror...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Jesus Christ Superstar: A Work in Progress | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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