Word: nut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This went from being a crazy idea to a 60-to-65-institution coordination," Rowe says. "I was regarded as a nut, and now [colleagues] are with...
...want more? Do you want the whole skinny on the depth of Faye Yager's rage? The second husband was a nut job too. A monster. He held a gun to her neck, threatened her, played with her, and when she finally told him to go to hell, he pulled the trigger and shot himself in the head...
...become ever more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world a tough nut to crack. Well before MSFDC, the industry launched the software consortium Integrion as its bulwark against territorial infringement. Today Integrion competes with MSFDC even as it licenses Microsoft Money. Microsoft, meanwhile, plays the good citizen, agreeing to abide by the E-commerce software platform that an industry group will release...
...overload of fact--not in the least with character. Their eyes don't contact the viewer: they look right through you. They were as anticosmetic as mug shots (some disconcertingly so: young Richard Serra looks like a dockland thug; his wife, artist Nancy Graves, like a snaggle-toothed nut). And it's interesting that Close's heads, then and later, work best when they are either strictly frontal or in profile; any turn or tilt of the head, suggesting that the sitter has noticed you, weakens the image...
...tricks offered range from the classic to the absurd, but are all reasonably priced--almost everything is under $10. Oldies-but-goodies fill the shelves: disappearing ink, joy buzzers, whoopee cushions, two headed nickels, trick decks of cards, finger traps and snakes that pop out of mixed nut cans. They're joined by the less-clicheed instant worms, fake spilled nail polish, a hugely popular rubber brain, fake parking tickets and life-like stick-on faucets...