Word: lone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dippy model turned TV host named Bagitta. But She TV's horizons are broader. That became clear its first week, in an inspired sketch called "What Do Women Want?" Ostensibly a parody of a game show, it turned into a sly satire of the gulf between the sexes; a lone male contestant is trapped in a world where the rules are fuzzy and he's the only one who isn't clued in. (Emcee's question: "Your 10th anniversary falls on a Monday -- ." Female player hitting the buzzer before he finishes: "A romantic phone call during your lunch hour...
...Vatican emerged as the lone dissenter over a compromise version of the U.N. population document on abortion, drawing a chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...
...Walt the Wonder Boy, the diminutive daredevil who defied the laws of gravity, the one and only ace of the air." He is struck by the fact that his triumphs take wing in the same year, 1927, that Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic: "I didn't know the Lone Eagle from a hole in the ground, but I felt linked to him after that, as if we shared some dark fraternal bond. It couldn't have been a coincidence that his plane was called the Spirit of St. Louis...
...Rhode Island effort is not a lone crusade. Citizens are increasingly taking up the environmental battle cry of NIMBY -- not in my backyard! -- and rallying to block former convicts from settling in their communities. Local groups are pressing state assemblies for tougher detention laws and parole conditions. When legislators don't respond quickly enough, citizens take it upon themselves to sound the alert. As a direct result, more and more states are enacting laws that put the interests of the community before the rights of ex-prisoners. The laws, says Patrick Stafford of the Southern Legislative Conference, are "very representative...
Anyway, these Lone Rangers claim to have recorded this great song (Chazz to his girlfriend: "I wrote it for you." Girlfriend to Chazz: "You wrote it before you met me." Ugh. And guess what? That joke's also recycled about 50 times). But nobody, including record executives and Chazz's girlfriend, believes that the song has any merit. So the Lone Rangers set out to prove it to the world in the best way they know how--by taking over a radio station and holding a few annoying music jocks hostage. With water guns...