Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bother to fake it. As her colleagues clapped at the nicer sentiments of Gingrich's speech -- and even rose to applaud him several times -- Waters sat fixed in her seat, glowering. For part of the speech, she even left the chamber. But others in her party were willing to marvel...
...service, eWorld, and publisher Ziff-Davis is expected to launch its powerful new Interchange Online Network before the end of the year. But the most fearsome competitors may be ones that are still in the wings. Next year Microsoft is expected to introduce its own online service, code-named Marvel, which it could bundle into every copy of Windows it sells. Even more formidable would be an online service from AT&T, which can market directly to its 80 million customers...
Larry McMurtry's splendid horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
...smile. Across the street Kevin Britton, an elementary-school gym teacher, explained that he too wants the former three- term mayor back. To Britton, Barry's six-month stint in jail should not be seen as a disqualification. Far from it. "That makes it all the more a marvel," Britton said. "Marion Barry could have thrown in the towel, but he didn't. It took character to pick himself up, and this city needs that kind of character in a leader...
...enormous success. By the hundreds of thousands, workmen and their families poured out of the sweaty city to this marvel of a beach. You can still see it today. True, gone are the legions of sailor-suited college students picking up trash. Gone too, in this age of tort, the archery range and roller rink. But the rest is there, a grand beach park for yet another generation of working-class New Yorkers, with Hispanics and blacks now joining the original beach population of white ethnics...