Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verge of pulling out of the spin? He had been talking about doing the Fatty Arbuckle story, from a script that David Mamet wrote just for him. A movie movie. In which he would neither crush furniture with his cascading body nor walk into a glass door and then rub his head until his hair stuck out all over. He would not be playing a fat white ninja. He called the Arbuckle idea "a departure from what I've previously done...
...process of extracting hydrogen from more conventional fuels such as gasoline and methanol inevitably releases some carbon dioxide--but not as much as the internal combustion engine does, and therein lies the rub...
...office ever since age 12. "I was raised in a household where public service was valued," he says, recalling vividly that "[President] Kennedy died when I was 15. Bobby Kennedy died on my 20th birthday." Says author Scott Turow, Checchi's undergraduate roommate at Amherst College: "Al can rub people the wrong way, but he's always had a sense of personal destiny. He's always wanted to do good. He's a great idealist...
...there's the rub. Web browsers began as simple products that let users access Web pages, but they are swiftly evolving into full-service communications programs. Netscape, for instance, whose Communicator browser retains a large market lead over Explorer, has steadily upgraded Communicator with new applications--E-mail, groupware, newsreaders--just as Microsoft does with Explorer. Browsers, Klein says, "could erode Microsoft's operating-system monopoly, because browsers take computing beyond the desktop, where Microsoft rules, and into the world of the Internet, where no one is dominant...
...infuriated enough by the sight of FDA swat teams swarming over hamburger patties like flies on the proverbial, they were also treated to the disgustingly healthy sight of all those UPS workers being active again. Not to mention the trim Mir cosmonauts and their astronautical acrobatics. As if to rub it in, the very first space commercial released this week in Israel featured Commander Vasily Tsibliyev downing a gooey gob of ? ugh! ? skim milk...