Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When millions of curious web surfers come to news sites this time around, they won't be doing anything as simple as calling up a 445-page document, poking around (or printing it out) and logging off. They'll be staying connected for hours, bulging their bandwidth with pipe-clogging video data, and giving webmasters everywhere a week's worth of migraines...
...thinking a lot of a guy in my high school I'll call Leonard, who was said to know 58 terms for the female breast. He used the terms constantly, and unexpectedly. A few of us would be talking about our Latin teacher's severity, and Leonard would suddenly pipe up with, "That Matilda's got a set of Howards on her, all right...
...traditionally been limited to a handful of (mostly) student activists. (The city's Muslim clergy, for example, showed no hesitation in condemning the Planet Hollywood bombing.) Fundamentalists were instrumental in creating People Against Gangs and Drugs (PAGAD), a vigilante organization that launched a war on crack dealers -- with pipe bombs as the weapon of choice. (Initial reports suggest a similar device was used in Planet Hollywood.) PAGAD has fought the police too, which is why most of the fundamentalists are well known to local lawmen. As if to make the job of law enforcement even easier, members of the group...
...handful of Islamic fundamentalists have been involved in a two-year vigilante war against the city's drug dealers, and have used pipe bombs to attack suspected gang members on a number of occasions. If such disparate elements are now turning their attention to attacking targets linked (however spuriously) to the U.S., it may be a sign that the strike on Bin Laden has fueled a response to his call for global jihad...
...most inspired choice is his new lyricist, Jim Steinman, the veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over-the-top lyrics like...