Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to experts. When I was eight years old, I told everyone the new mud flap with the rhinestone on my Schwinn was the prize for winning the biking competition at the Knights of Columbus. I was humiliated when the fact checkers in my neighborhood found out I'd only collected the consolation prize for slow-riding. Chastened, I stuck close to reality until I was trying to account for some dead spots between college and law school, and law school and life. Rather than admit to traveling aimlessly around Europe, I put down that I was studying French...
...Blondie and four associates. The five pleaded guilty without a trial. The government urged leniency--the cops had confessed to more crimes than anyone suspected, and implicated more than 50 fellow officers in the process--but the judge was unsympathetic. "You've squashed the Bill of Rights in the mud," he said before sending the men to stiff prison terms...
...looked up Julia's creator, Michael Mauldin, who told me that he built the "chatterbot" in 1990 to reside in the virtual world of TinyMUD, an early experiment in online community building in the pre-Web Internet. Mauldin's idea was to use the all-text environment of the MUD to stage a so-called Turing Test--that is, he wanted to build a piece of software that could trick humans into thinking they were communicating with one of their own. It worked. "One guy hit on Julia for 13 days," recalls Mauldin, noting that although the bot was always...
Autumn also means less daylight. Skin just doesn't have that bronzed, sun-kissed look about it any more. Remedies include Kiss My Face honey and calendula moisturizer ($3.99), Apple Cider Vinegar Toner ($4.75) and even Ocean Potion Sea Clay Mud Pack ($9.10) for the tired complexion. To complete the look with white teeth, buy Tom's of Maine natural baking soda toothpaste ($3.39). Finally, if Citystep didn't help you catch that hottie from section, another option is Ecco Bella's Venetian Night Erotic Aromatherapy...
...immensities of the later 1960s--Vietnam, the racial transformation of America and the erstwhile youth revolution--were set in motion during his presidency. That same complicated stature makes him a legitimate target for the grinding inquiries of real historians. It also makes him a natural one for the mud balls of less scrupulous commentators...