Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filed its antitrust suit 18 months ago, the company has won the Web-browser war, revenue growth has accelerated and earnings have been rising 10% per quarter. Put another way: Bill Gates' company has had a great year four times a year, even with the Feds breathing down its neck. Little wonder that the stock doubled in that same 18 months--the fourth such double in the past six years...
...tiny injury between the first and second vertebrae of Christopher Reeve's neck, and even if you could, it wouldn't look like much. But Reeve is always aware of the little wound. Ever since he sustained it in a 1995 riding accident, the actor best known for playing Superman has had virtually no movement or sensation below the neck and has been largely dependent on a ventilator to breathe...
...been something of a schizophrenic affair. Within Grohl's songs there lurks a love for pop music that bubbles up in the middle of the usual hardcore barrage. The tension reached critical mass on The Colour and the Shape, which alternated between ripping throats and jerking tears. The break-neck changes in style between songs gave the album a brilliantly fractured feel but beat up the listener in the process. The divisiveness of the album only foreshadowed the real-life breakups just over the horizon. After losing two guitarists, a drummer and a record label in the past two years...
...While these are clearly not the Foo Fighters of old, the faithful will not be disappointed. You can hear the veins popping out on Grohl's neck in "Breakout" while "Next Year" floats along with the same sweetness the Foos' softer moments have always pulled off with a child-like sincerity. However, on There is Nothing Left to Lose, Grohl and company succeed in filling in the chasm between the two wildly separate styles they had previously mined for hits...
...central building. A small man popped out from under a truck and began to rummage through a large toolbox. I continued on to the second floor, where I met Sean Sullivan, the transfer station's manager. Wearing shiny black leather shoes, black dress pants, a tight pea green V-neck sweater and a gold chain, he introduced himself and offered me the tour that I had previously arranged...