Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect part for her," he recalls. "When I said she'd play the madam of a whorehouse, she uttered some expletives, then agreed." Now Douglas is embarking on his eighth book, a new movie and an adolescent rite of passage: next week he will be bar mitzvahed for the second time. "In Judaism you can be re-bar mitzvahed at 83," he says. "I've asked guests to donate to charity in lieu of gifts, but I do expect a lot of fountain pens...
...game-show fan who has bitterly counted the prizes he or she should have won instead of those idiot contestants!, the chance to compete directly is alluring. On the other hand, there is a second-class element to webRIOT online: the TV contestants win bigger daily prizes (all-expense-paid vacations, for instance) and watching a show just because your name might appear on the air is a tad close to Romper Room. But, says MTV Online vice president Rick Holzman, viewers downloaded more than 750,000 copies of the game software before the show's premiere, and while...
...couldn't help noticing that my generation had become the core of our large family. Try as we might to delay the growing-up process, by marrying and having children late, my sisters, cousins and I have finally graduated from the kids' table. While that has its advantages (uncontested second helpings of pie, for instance), it also confirms us as members of the "sandwich generation," so called because we are wedged between the needs of growing children and aging parents. More than likely, within the next few years my sisters and I will join 22 million other American households that...
...what you call missing the dominant trend of our time. Half of all Americans came to own stocks in the '90s, an all-time high. Here's another gem: "The explosive coming of age of Japanese consumers, central European producers and Latin American governments lowered U.S. successes to second-tier status," the report reads. Well, whiff again. That scenario may develop in the next 10 years, but it doesn't come close to describing the decade in question...
...rape--all are dealt with matter-of-factly and unsensationally, but not without judgment. Clymer describes these episodes as they were: egregious cases of irresponsible behavior that disqualified Kennedy from ever being President. But he also paints a sympathetic picture of a lonely man who finds love with his second wife Vicki...