Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings magically morph in a technique that might be called Virtual Realty. You have to watch carefully, for this is not an ingratiating film. It drops you into a foreign landscape without guidebook or translator. It is as cool and distant as the planet the Strangers come from. But, Lord, is Dark City a wonder...
...Majesty had no objection to the government's view that ... daughters and sons should be treated in the same way," Lord Williams of Mostyn said in announcing the queen's decision to the House of Lords. To hear those words spoken in the mustiest hall of the British establishment would have given their lordships seizures a while back. But now her majesty is the very model of a modern European monarch -- she pays taxes, invites tourists into her home and dishes out knighthoods to rock stars. Her great-grandfather Edward VII, who would have lost the throne to his sister...
...literary effect whatsoever. Who cares? It's a caustic parody of platinum-card pretension in New Jersey's upper-middle-class 'burbs. Everyone drives I-got-mine-mobiles, lives in we-got-ours palazzos and connives ceaselessly to trade up for yet grander cars, real estate, spouses and even, Lord love a duck, tennis partners. Was it this way in 1974, when Will and Joel were big-shot seniors at Verona High School? They don't know...
...terrible. In Genesis 38: 8-10, God commands a man named Onan to marry his brother's widow. Reluctant to impregnate her, Onan commits coitus interruptus, spilling his seed on the ground. How does God deal with Onan's seminal wastefulness? "And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also...
DIED. JACK LORD, 77, clean-cut actor who played his TV tough guys straight and a little bit square; of heart failure; in Honolulu. The West and its cliches suited Lord as the rodeo-going Stoney Burke, but he left the range for Hawaii Five-O. The locale changed, but his lawman soul didn't, as Detective ("Book 'Em, Danno") McGarrett on TV's longest-running crime drama...