Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're the supermodels, and they're hotter than a curling iron. Whenever Evangelista, 26, dyes her trademark bob -- and that's often -- it's news. The fashion world quivers as her hair goes from dark brown to platinum blond to Technicolor red. Campbell's life and loves are chronicled as much as her face; her reputed affair with Robert De Niro has become a staple of the celebrity gossip pages...
...preserved -- a messenger from the ancient past. Stumbled upon at the glacier's edge by a pair of German climbers, the mummified corpse was identified last week as a rare human specimen from the early Bronze Age, possibly the oldest ever found in Europe. Although hundreds of Bronze and Iron Age bodies have been found in the bogs of northwest Europe, the "Iceman from the Similaun," as he was dubbed by the Austrian press, is much better preserved. It was a find of "extraordinary scientific significance," says Professor Konrad Spindler at the University of Innsbruck, where the Iceman was flown...
Another of Melville's strong points is her portraiture of engaging characters. Molly Summers, from "The Iron and the Radio Have Gone," makes her initial appearance wearing "a necklace of mosquito bites." An English schoolteacher who delights in being magnanimous and forgiving to the poor and sinful of Guyana, Summers is ludicrously shocked and sickened by the sight of a poor and sinful Englishman...
...project, conceived by Associate Director of Facilities Maintenance Robert Lyng two years ago, will involve renovations of both brick and iron portions of 154 sections of the fence...
...Yugoslavia's strife, the E.C. has been haunted by a feeling of deja vu. More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had no interests there that "would be worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer." Though Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected...