Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pick six homes where he might sleep. At the last minute he chooses his resting place, making sure it's never the same spot two nights in a row. Sometimes he spends the night in a well-guarded van pulled into the bushes at the side of a remote road...
Just being out here qualifies, if you ask Los Angeles police captain Ron Bergmann, who says more kids than ever are racing. The night of that November crash, he says, police were headed north on San Fernando Road when they saw racers, four abreast, bearing down on them at about warp 6. A 19-year-old Pasadena boy in an '89 Mustang convertible spun around and fled, but his car found a tree...
...actor would have mapped out this road to celebrity. But jaunty, reckless Burt Reynolds followed it, becoming the No. 1 box-office attraction for five straight years (1978-82) and, quite possibly, the zeitgeist star of his generation. You know what? This still is his generation. Last week, the day before he turned 62, Reynolds copped an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the porno patriarch in Boogie Nights...
Meanwhile, everyone interested in the intersection of TV and the Net is sitting straighter in his chair. South Park's low production values make it ideal for online distribution. But look down the road a few years when Net connections get faster and RealVideo-type technology improves, and you can see how easy it will be for people to give away everything from CDs to feature-length films. I figured Comedy Central would be thrombosing about this blatant theft of copyrighted material. As usual, I figured wrong...
...present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that?s just window dressing. The secretary general hinted at the real deal when he said the document mentions sanctions -- and looks down the road toward lifting them. That?s one thing, at least, that Washington won?t like the look of. Those troops in the Gulf aren't likely to come home any time soon...