Word: hourglass
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...middle of the night. While most of Miami is sleeping, Casanovas, the area's most electric disco, has just received its wake-up call. Attractive young women teeter across the dance floor in vertiginous high heels, their hourglass figures accentuated by off-the-shoulder Lycra tops and tight leather micromini-skirts. Handsome, heavily cologned men in open-neck shirts keep the ladies under close observation, hoping to spot the sideways glance and quick nod that signify a turn on the floor...
...past meets the future. The cultural meeting represents not just a Hispanic milestone, not simply a celebration at the crossroads. America transforms into pleasure what it cannot avoid. Hispanic-American culture of the sort that is now in evidence (the teen movie, the rock song) may exist in an hourglass, may in fact be irrelevant. The U.S. Border Patrol works through the night to arrest the flow of illegal immigrants over the border, even as Americans stand patiently in line for La Bamba. While Americans vote to declare, once and for all, that English shall be the official language...
...jobs he has held: "Is he running the waffle ad? Any idea why they ran that snow-prints ad in Florida of all places?" Bush is pleased and relaxed. Things are going well. He turns to Fuller and says, "I wish the sand were running through the hourglass faster because everything feels real solid right now." Bush heads into the room next door and pedals a stationary bicycle for 20 minutes while watching...
...system file. Modifying the system file can help break the monotony of boring icons and messages. For example, the annoying little watch that always shows up on the screen to remind the user how slow that little Macintosh really is can be changed to the infinity sign, an hourglass or even a tasteful obscenity...
...this elegant and glowing memoir, Lance Morrow sifts time like sand in an hourglass, revisiting the places and stations of his life. They are brilliantly specific, but they resonate far beyond their locales. In Washington, "politics, elections, chicaneries flowed through private conversation . . . marinated in Scotch and cigarette smoke," and the boy immediately associates tobacco with wisdom and maturity. At Harvard, a fellow student tells him Schopenhauer, the ultimate pessimist, " 'knows the way life is' . . . life was painful. 'No,' I would say. 'Life is not like that at all.' I was terrified that it might...