Word: olden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things happened this year that I didn't expect", said Olden Polynice, who signed with the Sonics as a free agent. "I came here knowing I would be in the playoffs. That's why I made the decision...
...Datesite is scary--and is emblematic of the post-modern phenomenon that we will soon face. There are too many choices. Ah, the millennium. In the olden days--say, five years ago--you might send your one sweetheart some daisies to let her know you care. To join the author of last week's endpaper, Noah Oppenheim, in the casino for a moment, in the past, you would bet the farm on a harbored romance and send a dozen roses to votre cherie...
Cannon and Lee drew up a list of wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...
While Tom named some of his plants after Twin Peaks characters (Catherine, Laura Palmer, Audrey) and Johnny often plays music to his "little ones," Mel decided that he didn't want to become too attached to his plants. "It's like in the olden days, when parents wouldn't name their kids until they were three or four years old because of the high death rate," he says...
Still, it may have some future utility. In olden days, as a token of his romantic seriousness, a gent used to give his lady a copy of Kahlil Gibran's profoundly woozy The Prophet. Perhaps the gift of a videocassette of Before Sunrise will offer a similar opportunity for '90s fellows too clever to announce that they're on the make...