Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year I was at the MAC playing hoops. On another court, I saw a tall guy from one of my sections banking in two-footers. A bunch from the left, then a bunch from the right. For about 20 minutes. "Man, that's boring," I thought...
...deer, the full-size antlered stag I saw the other day at dusk, as I was walking down the main street of our village. Suddenly he stepped out of a driveway, looked about to panic, saw it was only me and trotted, head high, down the center of the street...
...they saw in Damon the same thing Hollywood does--an all-American beer-drinking dude, with an appealing self-assurance. The 27-year-old actor's gambling strategy was to raise, raise, raise--an approach that suited a wealthy young man whose annual salary just went north of $1 million, but whose cards weren't what you'd call a sure thing. Long after lower-paid mortals folded, Damon continued to bet like a winner; he'd arrived at the table with $200 and left only $20 poorer, which of course did nothing to deter the amiable grin that rarely...
...director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, hurries us past all the desperate explanations required by sequels to movies that ended up pretty definitively (the last we saw of Ripley in Alien 3, she was taking a dunk in molten metal). Since most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are constantly interrupted by fires, floods and explosions, Jeunet is eager to get on with the really scary stuff. This is not, given the movie's self-satirizing impulse, as terrifying as it once was. But on the whole, the eek-for-yuks trade-off is more than fair--hip without being...
...YORK: Less than a week after U.N. statistics revealed that 1 in 100 of all adults in the world are infected with the HIV virus - and that 90 percent of them don't know about it - Monday saw the tenth observance of World AIDS Day. Nine years since the World Health Organization first declared the event, and there is good reason to be gloomy: "Even in places where we have the education and have the resources, the message isn't always getting through," says TIME Medical Correspondent Christine Gorman. "You see 16-year-olds getting infected - even 15-year-olds...