Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dance, sing, break and rap together while thousands of mostly pre- and early pubescents trip over their own ecstasy. The audience shrieks. Screams. And clutches at its authorized New Kids T shirts ($20). Jangles its authorized New Kids buttons (three for $8). Finally departs, hoarse, sweaty, satisfied and somewhat lighter in the purse. This group has found the perfect place for contemporary pop icons: close to the heart and close to the cash...
...which is a long way from stock-car racing's roots in moonshining. During the 1930s and '40s, drivers running corn whisky from backwoods stills to thirsty customers needed their cars to be a little lighter and quicker than the sheriff's in order to remain in business. Bootleggers like the legendary Junior Johnson of Ronda, N.C., took to tearing out the radios, door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month...
...other hand, John Goodman (Roseanne) portrays local exterminator Delbert McClintock as a much lighter character. McClintock has no desire to study the vermin, nor does he fear them; he simply revels in destroying them. The absurd pride with which this cross between Rambo and a Beverly Hillbilly goes about annihilating spiders, as if on a personal vendetta, effectively lampoons both Atherton's seriousness and Jennings' irrational fear...
Dark pigmentation is obviously protective. The rare melanomas found among blacks develop almost exclusively in areas of lighter skin not usually exposed to the sun: palms of the hands, soles of the feet, under fingernails and even in the mouth. This leads experts to believe that melanomas among blacks are largely genetic...
...Times Mirror study notes that the young audience has "buoyed the popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the young. But that means walking a tricky tightrope: in trying to make the news more appetizing, they risk turning it into something other than the news...