Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could you think of a dottier notion for an exhibition than the one now in the lower rooms of the Frick Collection in New York City: "Victorian Fairy Painting"? All those little homunculi and chaste, pocket-size cuties with gauzy wings, flittering about the mossy dells and twiggy bowers of the sentimental English imagination--aargh, spare us. We are so much smarter now, anyway: instead of fairies we believe in close encounters of the third kind, with aliens sticking shiny probes into overweight housewives whisked from the parking lot of the 7-Eleven. And yet, even granting that the show...
Generations of butter lovers have held that margarine should not qualify as a food. Now there's a margarine manufacturer that agrees. The makers of Benecol spread consider it a nutritional supplement. Not only will it not raise your overall blood cholesterol, they say; studies show that it will lower it as much...
...outside, Paula Jones seemed to have extracted a lot for launching a sexual-harassment case against President Clinton: calmer hair, better teeth, a new nose. But by late this summer she had also seen her case thrown out by a lower court, and her real life was feeling more like an episode from Married...With Children than a segment on Entertainment Tonight: between makeovers, she was a mother with two young kids and an unemployed husband. "After four years, Paula was getting tired," says a family friend. "They were cooped up in this small one-bedroom apartment. She didn...
...standing relationship with the Dominican Republic's politicians. Through a subsidiary, Central Romana Ltd., the brothers grow sugar cane and operate the world's largest sugar mill there. The profit margin is substantial, partly because cane cutters on the island earn about $100 a month, making production costs much lower than in Florida. From their Dominican plantation the Fanjuls export roughly 100,000 tons of raw, duty-free sugar each year...
...launch of Iridium's worldwide satellite paging and cellular-phone service was the flashiest advance, but the new low-cost calling plans (of just 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute) on regular cell phones will do much more to increase their use. The Yankee Group predicts that these lower-priced calling plans will bump up average cell-phone usage, from three to five hours a month, by 2007. Pagers, on the other hand, are already cheap, but they've broadened their appeal with flashy colors for teens and two-way messaging for business users...