Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the soccer celebration, signs of Khatami's new Iran were increasingly visible. Cinemas are showing Hollywood films such as Seven, starring Brad Pitt, who has become a favorite heartthrob in Iran. Titanic is a huge black-market hit, available only on pirate videos smuggled from New York City and Los Angeles. Boys are walking around sporting Leonardo DiCaprio T shirts, and girls are plastering their bedrooms with the teen idol's picture. Women are for the first time exposing polished toenails in public...
Michael Crichton is probably heaving a huge sigh of relief. The author of Jurassic Park and The Lost World is known as a stickler for scientific accuracy in his books and the films made from them. But honestly, how much terror could readers and filmgoers have worked up at the idea of people trapped on a tropical island and chased around by a pack of large chickens? That sort of thing is more in Woody Allen's line...
...reputedly the most expensive produced for the new season, twice as pricey as most others. Where's the moolah going? Into the special effects, from computer-generated images of the White House exploding (again) and the bombing of the Speaker's limousine to the design and building of a huge 24-ft.-high, 45-ft.-wide sphere for time travel. The show stars Jonathan LaPaglia, once a real-life emergency-room doctor who turned in his stethoscope for show biz, as Frank Parker, a former CIA renegade who's drafted into Operation Back-Step, a time-travel mission that goes...
...always eager to be heard. "This is a battle that has to be won ?- no ifs, no buts!" shouted Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley, the chief opponent of April's peace agreement, upon arriving at the standoff site in Portadown, 30 miles outside of Belfast, to huge applause from the Orange Order crowd. Worried Trimble: "This situation has the capacity to destabilize... it could put at risk all the political progress we have achieved." Trimble has the will to make peace. He may now find out whether, as newly elected first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly...
...will take months to assess and longer to fix. It appears Dunlap had been "stuffing the channel," persuading retailers through discounts to buy more gas grills than they would normally need. This practice helped swell Sunbeam earnings in 1997 but led to this year's crash. Even Dunlap's huge success at Scott Paper is now under a cloud. Kimberly-Clark, which bought Scott for top dollar in 1995, is struggling to make the merger pay off. Profits tumbled 19% last quarter...