Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complete hermits. What trip to Massachusetts would be complete without a Kennedy visitation? They chummed around on TED KENNEDY's yacht with the Senator, his wife Victoria Reggie, niece CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG and assorted others from the famous clan. Bill also had time to bestow a presidential pat--and instant celebrity--on BUDDY, a local pooch. "Is this a great dog or what?" Clinton asked, even though dogs still don't have the vote...
...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...
Telemarketers work differently. They are a fraternity of sorts, says Somers. "There are certain bars in Las Vegas where they are known to hang out." Their shops are a kind of floating network of operations that start up, close and reopen on an instant's notice. When active, they run at a true boiler-room pace. One operation busted by federal agents in Phoenix last year had been logging 3,000 calls a day on just four phone lines...
Someone in the publishing industry has sauteed up an ingenious scheme: spear a celebrity for a book deal, cut ghostwriter costs by churning out recipes instead of paragraphs and voila!, instant profit. Riverhead editor Mary South puts it in gentler terms: "Cookbooks are a great way for celebrities to do a biography without having to do a tell-all." South will help Patti LaBelle, who was been known to rustle up a mean meal on the road, dish out her culinary secrets next year. Even a reed-thin celebrity who was never seen in an apron will...
...drug policy is insane. And no politician can stand up and say what I'm saying, because it's the third rail ? instant electrocution," says the multi-billionaire and Holocaust survivor, who added that he feels obliged to speak out when the world will listen. "I'm in a unique position," says Soros. "Therefore I have to do these things...