Word: scoot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take to satisfy a man? Well, if it's in Belgium, it's probably extra cheese. Yes, sweetie pie has taken a backseat to a different dish in the land of Liege, at least according to an interactive information service. If one is to believe the data accumulated by Scoot, a venture that provides toll-free information both online and over the phone, what really makes Brussels sprout is information on where to score a hot, saucy... pizza...
Perhaps it's the numbing effect of living in a country whose cultural emblem is a statue of a urinating cupid, but it wasn't even close: Libidinous pursuits accounted for a feckless 1.7 percent of the million-odd calls to Scoot over the past five months, in marked contrast to the numbers typically racked up by sex searches on Internet-only systems. Besides pizza procurement -- the runaway winner -- other popular query topics up Waterloo way include travel and party locations. In other words, directions to Domino...
Only later would Lloyd Webber scoot across town to the opening most of London was buzzing about--of Whistle Down the Wind, his much troubled musical that had an abortive tryout 1 1/2 years ago in Washington. Since then, Lloyd Webber has overseen a major revamp of the show: brought in a new director, helped rewrite the book and added half a dozen new songs. "To be frank," he says of the old version, "the work had not been done to get it into theatrical shape...
...have a set of binary options that anticipates each possible move of your opponent--and gives you a way to overcome it. Is your man overplaying you? Cut backdoor. Is he sloughing off? Come out for the pass. If your teammate dribbles toward you, either cut away or scoot round for a hand-off. As if you were playing judo with a ball, you always use the strength of your opponent against...
...lines of any American play. "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart," the doomed heroine says at the end of The Diary of Anne Frank. The words, taken from the real Anne's journal, were designed to give Broadway audiences an uplifting scoot out the door, a parting affirmation of the human spirit. But it worked only if you didn't think too hard about what happened to the characters in real life. Anne and the seven family members and friends who spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex...