Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayor Xavier Suarez isn't pleased with the title, and for weeks he has threatened to sue Hiaasen and his paper, the Miami Herald. Last week, to emphasize his pique, Suarez phoned the Herald's advertising manager and left another warning on voice mail: "I note that we are subsidizing you and your newspaper with ads related to official notices of the city," Suarez growled. Echoing a bit of cold war lingo, he then urged the manager to "tell your maximum leader of the free world for the publishing company [translation: Herald president Joe Natoli] to be a lot nicer...
...exercise or use the telephone. Meals are pushed through a slot in the door: breakfast at 5:30 a.m., lunch at 10:30 a.m., dinner at 3:30 p.m. The air is usually heavy and hot and stirred by large fans in the hallway. The days drag like toilet paper stuck to a shoe. "Sometimes I feel like I'm just sitting in there deteriorating," says Cousin. "Just slowly evaporating...
...wife is no technophobe and enjoys computer entertainment as much as the next guy. Indeed, there was a time when she was so hooked on a game about piloting paper airplanes around heating vents that we all started to worry. So, naturally, I was a little defensive. "It is educational," I rejoined, nervously surveying the games I had picked out to seed what I hoped might someday grow into an extensive video-game library: SoulBlade, Tekkan 2, Bushido Blade and Crash Bandicoot 2. The Sony PlayStation plays more than 300 games, which is why I bought it. And that...
Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You're sitting up half the night, either in a library or in your room, pounding away at a paper or problem set or studying your brains out for an exam. (OK, that much I know has happened to you.) You jump into bed at around three in the morning, priming yourself for your class, review session, or even your exam by telling yourself, "No problem, I'm in bed. Thank goodness I'm getting six hours of sleep." And then it happens: you don't sleep...
...restlessness is much more than that. In the moments between sleeping and waking, between finishing the paper and handing it in, between studying for the test and taking it, between hard work and future failure or success--and maybe even between childhood and adulthood--you can get stuck in time, like a thick mud that grabs hold of your foot as you're stepping with the other foot onto solid ground. You can't think about "nothing" at that moment, because "nothing" is exactly what you fear the most, that somehow you won't make it from Point...