Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...households enjoy the big pictures and booming Surround Sound that come with a wide-screen, 25-to-65-in. TV, an audio-video receiver, a front and rear set of speakers, hi-fi VCR and a LaserDisc or DVD player. Less than a decade ago, entertainment mavens had to shell out tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars for that kind of gear. Now newcomers can find complete, easy-to-install packages for $2,000 to $3,000--a price range that has helped the industry generate a record $9 billion in revenues...
...very pleasing, quick vibrato, fine enunciation of his words and clear tone. And he is one of the few actors, if not the only one, who projects a consistent, believable stage presence. He simply assumes the character of the role he played, without pandering to the audience or looking shell-shocked by their presence...
...student says, "I know this guy on campus who chicks dig and cling to and all that, just because of his tortoise-shell glasses...
After dominating the eighth-best team in the nation for two periods last night, the Harvard men's hockey team (1-3-1, 1-2-1 ECAC) fell into a shell and squandered a two-goal lead to lose in overtime to Boston College...
...great fortune of meeting that country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Rolihlala Mandela. It was an honor to meet "Madiba," as he is affectionately referred to in South Africa, but there was one aspect of my encounter with him at the African National Congress's (ANC) "Shell House" offices in Johannesburg which left me rather ill at ease...