Word: shebang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remain perennially susceptible to New Year's Eve's specious allure, annually convinced that next year's shebang may somehow be different. And when it comes to the pathos of impossible expectations, there's never been anything like this: New Year's Eve Y2K. The millennium, baby! The expectations for this year's gala are pathologically high. An apocalyptically giddy time is expected to be had. We seem to be demanding nothing less than a cosmic collision of the dimensional trajectories of time and space in which, for one amazing instant, the entire universe becomes an unimaginably immense T.G.I. Friday...
...daughters would prevail in the Open, his refusal to answer was as full of protective affection as of cuteness and tact. (He said, "A Williams.") Earlier in the week, when informed of Outrageous Statement No. 10,000 that her dad had made, Serena, who won the whole shebang, rolled her eyes slightly heavenward, the way that only a normally dad-mortified daughter would...
Even with the Tomahawks flying and Sudan insisting that assaulting factories in Khartoum means having to say you?re sorry, Ken Starr?s grand jury keeps rollin? along. Although the special prosecutor needs to wrap up the case quickly and send the whole shebang off to the Hill, there are still some lose ends to take care of, such as hearing again from presidential pal Bruce Lindsey. And something tells us those 23 angry citizens haven?t heard the last of Monica...
Calling Jane's Addiction a bastion of integrity makes them sound like an American motor vehicle company, but the sentiment rings true, from the smallest details to the big shebang. Part of a tour scrupulously dubbed a "relapse" and not a reunion proper--Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea fills in ably for original guitarist Eric Avery--the band overcame the dead-end venue of the Gosman Center at Brandeis to produce frankly beautiful wide-open soundscapes charged through with Perry's idiosyncratic timbres...
...dispute pits Jeffrey Katzenberg, the diminutive and determined former chairman of the Walt Disney Co. studio, against Michael Eisner, the towering and truculent chief executive and chairman of the whole Disney shebang. The fight stems from Katzenberg's claim that Disney promised him 2% of the profit from the film and other ventures he headed during his 10 years at the studio, a sum that might reach $250 million or more. Some of those projects, notably animated hits like Aladdin and The Lion King, generated billions in revenue...