Word: select
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upper and upper- middle classes and missing the rest of the population. Kathy Smith, a Hollywood fitness expert, thinks aerobics and weight lifting scared a lot of people away. "The exercise message of the 1980s was too strong, too high impact," says Smith. "We ended up with a select group of elite exercisers with hard bodies." The proper message, most health experts now agree, is to set aside time for regular, moderate exercise -- bicycling, climbing steps, walking briskly to work...
...series of engaging dramas (Mermaids and Edward Scissorhands, starring her then beau, Johnny Depp), Ryder grew up on film and matured in her skills. By the time of Little Women, when she had enough clout to jump-start the project and enough savvy to help select the luminous young cast, she could play a very convincing big sister to her screen sibs. She kept the young actresses amused on the Vancouver set with games like Take a Bow. For example: "Bow like the fading star who knows she's going to be replaced next week...
...hands-on tests, the system rarely tests your patience. Click on a selection, and the network responds almost immediately. It feels "alive" -- almost too much so. Whatever category you select starts promoting itself immediately, pitching a product or showing a movie trailer. But if you don't like what you see, you can always move on. Hitting the "carousel" button, for example, takes you back to the main menu. There's also a handy "skip forward 10 minutes" button, which turned out to be perfect for finding Elle MacPherson's nude scenes in Sirens -- without having to sit through...
...factor was most intense in Time Warner's Future Services exhibit, where more than a dozen potential services were on display -- from sports on demand to an instant medical-checkup service. In one such service, rock musician Todd Rundgren showed off his interactive music system, which allows customers to select listening choices by artist, style, tempo or mood. In another, ShopperVision demonstrated its "virtual" supermarket, where customers can browse 3-D aisles, choose among 20,000 kinds of packaged goods and order for same-day delivery...
...predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry into bribery allegations involving his own firms...