Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loopy score? Superman: The Escape, which opened--after a year's delay to get all the kinks out--at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif. It is the tallest (415 ft.) and fastest (100 m.p.h.) roller coaster ever built. Chang, which opened in April in Louisville's Kentucky Kingdom, claims the "tallest vertical loop for any roller coaster" (121 ft.), while a new ride 200 ft. tall at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa., is distinguishing itself as "the tallest, longest and fastest steel roller coaster on the East Coast." The Great White at Sea World of Texas...
...Hennessy Louis Vuitton has made him the king of luxury goods. Over the past decade or so, Arnault has put particular energy into high-end fashion, acquiring the houses of Dior, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy and Kenzo. If you've already made your first few billion, it is a dream kingdom. Lately, the irreverent Women's Wear Daily is calling him the Pope of Fashion...
...turtle trade." Not far away, as Mike Bryan tells us in Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge (Knopf; 349 pages; $25), is Phil ("Shorty") Kendrick, a former egg deliverer who, having seen Jesus, is planning a 450-ft. model of Noah's ark. So far his kingdom extends mostly to a 14-year-old camel he drags around for cameos in Easter pageants...
...church teaches that people who believe are already incorporated into the kingdom of God. That may explain why there is less focus on the hereafterness of heaven. (The Rev.) LAWRENCE R. CAMBERG Bethesda Lutheran Church Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania...
When we heard of the strange cyberdoctrines of the Heaven's Gate group last week, the easiest thing in the world to do was to mock them for their unapologetic embrace of UFOs, "Human Evolutionary Levels" and even a Star-Trekky Kingdom of Heaven--to mock them, in fact, for defying our belief as they embraced their own. Their very name, we could tell ourselves cosily (as we painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members...