Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some work, but not much, gets above this level. Kiki Smith's sculpture Mother -- a pair of ghostly, transparent feet, before which lie scattered dozens of glass drops, large and small, which might be tears or babies -- has an unforced and melancholy poetry. Charles Ray specializes in weird dislocations of scale; his 45-ft.-long red toy fire truck parked outside the museum is an arresting street presence, while his naked nuclear family inside -- father, mother, daughter and son, all exactly the same size -- is distinctly spooky in a way that derives from Magritte. Byron Kim's Belly Paintings...
...time Columbia Pictures started thinking about filming Barbarians, whose rights had been optioned to veteran producer Ray Stark (The Way We Were) for $700,000, evil junk-bond genius Michael Milken was well on his way to jail, the takeover era was over, and the public backlash against the excesses of the '80s had started in a big way. Moreover, the catastrophic flop of Brian De Palma's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990 had cooled Hollywood on the idea of making movies set in Manhattan's financial district. Columbia began to shy away from...
Radiologists can often solve the problem. Using their skill with X-ray imaging to guide them, they make a needle puncture into a vein in the groin and thread a very thin tube to the testes. The doctors then seal off the varicose veins with coils or chemicals that are sent through the tube. Johns Hopkins researchers reported that of 71 couples in which the man had had the procedure and his partner no infertility treatment, 60% of the women got pregnant...
With its emphasis on old-fashioned manners and clean fun, the country line is square dancing for the '90s, the perfect pastime for the chummy, cuddly, slightly corny Clinton years. The trend was already gathering steam when Billy Ray Cyrus' 1992 hit Achy Breaky Heart spawned a line dance called the Achy Breaky. Now new ones are being made up every day. Kirsten Bonn, a former ballerina who teaches line-dancing classes at Denim & Diamonds, estimates that there are more than a thousand variations...
Jones said he began his musical career at an early age, as he met Ray Charles when...