Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life. Chief (Ice Cube) is described as "on a paid four-month vacation" from his job as a baggage handler at the Detroit Airport. Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), is a boyish, impetuous redneck, and Troy Barlow (an impish Mark Wahlberg), a new father, is his best friend and role model...
While sterile disposability and space-age technology have their place, that place is not in your hand. Today, you are a fountain pen. Modern in its sense of history, the fountain pen has been the stylus of choice since 1884, when the first workable model was invented by L.E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman. Its undisputed flow dried up 60 years later, when, thinking "time is money," the man in the gray flannel suit ushered in the ball point pen introducing a new level of corporatization and homogenization to America. In the years following, America flourished...
Wilford was a model of poise all afternoon. Trailing 14-3 midway through the second quarter, Wilford marched his team downfield, finding captain tight end Chris Eitzmann twice on a 42-yard scoring drive for long gains. On first-and-goal from the Holy Cross 4, he unleashed his cannon arm, gunning a quick pass over the middle to junior fullback Grady Smalling for a touchdown...
...them free, as well as offline. And just like the original Palm Pilot, it's comparatively cheap. (Clearly, the Palm Pilot inventors, who went on to found Handspring, learned from their success, and are using it as a springboard--hold on to that word--for their Visor.) The basic model sells for $149, but you'll need to shell out another $30 if you want a cradle for synching it with your PC or Macintosh. The "deluxe" unit is $249; with 8 MB of RAM, it has four times the memory of the basic and comes in five goofy high...
TAILOR-MADE The trouble with clothes shopping online or by catalog is that you never know if that dynamite blouse will look as good on you as it does on the skinny model. Now Broderbund's Cosmopolitan Fashion Makeover Deluxe CD-ROM ($50) lets you enter your own measurements, hairstyle and skin color on a virtual model to see how clothes from Macy's might look on your body. If you like what you see, simply click (on links to macys.com...