Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high beast that breathes fire and brimstone. He brings Scrooge to a time after his death. Scrooge witnesses how his relatives celebrate his demise. Maureen Silliman plays a second memorable role as Cynthia the silly sister, raucously gallivanting around the stage. This helps Scrooge, someone once "solitary as an oyster [so that] no warmth could warm him," realize that even his family hates him, that this is bad, and that he should reform--and quickly...
...proposals into a 44-page agenda titled the New American Choice. With its emphasis on private-sector growth, personal responsibility and community service, the booklet anticipated many of Clinton's campaign proposals, as well as the party's 1992 platform. Notes Paul Begala, a top Clinton strategist: "Every oyster needs a grain of sand to make a pearl. Al From is the grain of sand that made the Clinton candidacy...
...share of the vote than any other independent candidate in this century, save Teddy Roosevelt, who got 27.4% in 1912. But the maverick Texan got little boost from his final TV blitz. On election night he said he would continue to be "the grain of sand" that irritates an oyster into producing a pearl...
...effective as the company has proclaimed. Many killer whales have vanished from Prince William Sound, while the social structure of the remaining groups appears to be breaking down. Several large colonies of murres, a seabird, have not produced any chicks in the years since the spill. Harlequin ducks, black oyster catchers and other animals have been contaminated by eating oil-drenched mussels, and sea-otter populations are hemorrhaging, literally and figuratively -- a side effect of hydrocarbon poisoning...
...with Ice-T's support. Now they've joined forces to create a new band, Body Count, with Ice- T as the lead singer. Ice-T is a rock and heavy-metal fan of long standing, and, rapid-fire, he rattles off his favorites: Black Flag, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Hendrix, Slayer. "I like the aggressiveness and anger of hard rock," he says, and he proved it last summer by appearing with a collection of metal bands on the successful Lollapalooza tour...