Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grunge-struck '90s, when record-industry sages were trumpeting Nirvana and the flannel-clad hordes from Seattle as the next big thing, Arista Records president Clive Davis made a huge gamble: he invested millions in hip-hop, a genre many viewed as too troubled to be worth the risk. But the grunge bubble went bust, of course, as did a few of the labels betting on it. Today, hip-hop rolls along as comfortably as Puff Daddy does in his Bentley...
...causing any surface wound at all, to rejuvenate the skin's structure and reverse sun damage. In five years we may even have home lasers for facials. Fitzpatrick's partner, cosmetic-laser surgeon Mitch Goldman, predicts that in 10 years, you'll be able to wheel yourself into a huge machine like that for an MRI and come out with new skin. "It will take your hair off, resurface your skin to remove spots, wrinkles, age spots...
...another gallery sits Marcus Harvey's huge grisaille portrait of an English child abuser and murderer, Myra Hindley, whose image is composed of child-size handprints. Proving that local politics tends to make all art local, it is this work, rather than Ofili's Holy Virgin, that prompted an outcry in London, where "Sensation" first appeared two years ago at the Royal Academy of Arts. And yet, like Ofili's work, Myra is hardly an astonishment, looking like a wobbly send-up of a picture by the American painter Chuck Close. People in New York, ignorant of her crimes, will...
...criminal when I put my baby to bed in a non-flame-retardant sleeper). I asked Ann Brown, chairwoman of the CPSC, if she thought the co-sleeping warning isn't just a touch overblown. Hoarse from defending the CPSC's position on co-sleeping, she said the "huge number of deaths meant it would be wrong for us to withhold this information from parents...
...life of me, I can't understand why the Harry Potter books are such a huge craze. They're all right, I suppose, but they seem to me to be a watered-down version of Diane Duane's far superior juvenile Wizard series. STEVE VANDEN-EYKEL New Westminster...