Word: guru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday morning in the desert uplands north of Los Angeles, 15 disciples gather by a wire fence to absorb the teachings of a visiting guru. "Are you nervous?" the guru asks Katie Stangler, 16, in his thick Scottish brogue. Katie nods. "Ah, you don't have to be. Just do your usual thing, and forget I'm here. I'll come in and help you if you're struggling...
...Already being touted as an Oscar contender for Best Actor, it is not difficult to see why. Washington just radiates in this film. From being a cocky young fighter with a past, to an embittered prisoner, to a wise guru, there is no transformation that Washington cannot effect in this movie. He has the deepest subtleties of acting to break your heart--such as his expression that seems to encapsulate all the injustice in this world when it is announced in the courtroom that he has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. He explodes with the rawest of emotions...
...amazed at his total experience and his emotional management." The admiration and familiarity not only made McCain a very effective advocate for the Navy; it also got him thinking about himself as the Distinguished Gentleman from Somewhere. "He looked at those guys," says Jay Smith, McCain's early political guru, "and said, I can do this...
...prolonged yawning and a profound desire for the whole thing to be over and done with. For those remaining citizens vacillating between panic and nonchalance, the White House released a statement Monday designed to quell any nagging fears: Things will go wrong on December 31, 1999, says Clinton Y2K guru John Koskinen, but the vast majority of mishaps will be due to ordinary, everyday glitches, unrelated to the calendar date...
...role as a Pepperdine law professor, an author of 17 books and a contributor to Slate, The American Spectator and the Washington Post, the smartest man on basic cable is most animated when talking about Hollywood and its beautiful women. Perhaps Stein's oddest avocation is being a financial guru to hookers. "Aside from practicing pimps, nobody knows as many call girls as I do," he says. It began when Stein was a columnist for the Journal, spending his afternoons by the pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls. "I think...