Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime is hugely profitable and very difficult to detect," says Bucks County prosecutor Carolyn Oliver. "Wills' million-dollar ring is the biggest we've ever seen here, but it's just the tip of the iceberg." Salvage yards and body shops across the country will pay illegal suppliers like Wills $5,000 total for the front end, back clip, engine, radio, doors and bumpers of a typical late-model car. The parts are then resold to insurance companies, marked up 200% to 300% of their black-market cost. Last year 40,000 cars were stolen in the Philadelphia area alone...
...Burma, Laos and southern China to service the new breed of tourist. A 1991 conference of Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry is a huge market with its own momentum," says Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's-rights department. "You have an infernal race between the client and the pimp to expand the boundaries, to find the newest experience possible. Selling a 14-year-old girl has become...
...watered-down rock ruled the radio, a band called Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number were only the tip of the creative iceberg; beneath the taut tempos, cryptic lyrics and refreshingly unfamiliar melodies lurked an arcane, darkly sardonic intelligence summed up by the group's name, which was inspired by the moniker for a sexual appliance in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch...
...nitric oxide may only be the tip of the iceberg. The idea behind the treatment, that pollutants that are toxic in high doses are actually essential chemicals in the human body, may open a whole new world of safe drugs for other diseases...
...Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the past in careful, chilling detail...