Word: salamis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion to make and market 50 or so pictures between now and summer's end, and the moguls want you to want to see what they've got. So they flood theaters and TV stations with previews of coming attractions. Clips from the film are seductively arranged to make salami look like steak, and wrapped in a tag line so memorable it will cut through the competing clutter: "On a bad day, he's the best there is" (the Die Hard film); "The most passionately read love story of our time" (Madison County); and don't forget "Congo -- where...
...private eye turned matchmaker who brings together hundreds of lonely people for cybercompanionship; artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who is using the Internet to send out samples from her latest CD-ROM; and "The Visible Man," a dead criminal who has been sliced ("by what looked like a giant salami-slicing machine," recalls Kindel) into 1,800 pieces, all of them digitally photographed and stored for online inspection by medical students all over the world...
...shops in the capital filled with a dazzling array of hitherto unknown products, from kiwi fruit to Tabasco sauce. The trouble is, prices are so high that the minimum monthly wage of about 15,000 rubles does not even cover the cost of a kilogram of high-quality smoked salami, which sells for more than 16,000 rubles in one downtown Moscow gastronom store...
...opposition to a new law is going down to defeat. That's what happened, critics say, in the 1985 fight over the bill to ban "cop killer" bullets and the 1988 battle over plastic guns. Moreover, many N.R.A. activists believe any attempt to regulate firearms is part of the "salami game": a slice-by-slice diminishing of their rights. Says N.R.A. past President Jim Reinke: "If we give in on the handgun waiting period and assault rifles, we'd lose half our membership, and six months later the antigunners will want our long guns...