Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technique of building with glass and steel had been more fully embraced. "It should have taken off, especially in California," he says, partly blaming the building industry for its resistance to the idea. "They're the perfect houses for earthquakes because they hold together and they're sturdy, like shorter high-rises...
Sometimes I pass notes in class. And every once in a while there's a mashed potato and M&M food fight in the dining hall. I still get "psyched" to be asked to dances by guys who are shorter than I am and I constantly punctuate my sentences with "whatever!" Discontent over bra size is an all-too-frequent topic of discussion among my girlfriends. The mall is one of my favorite escapes. The last movie I saw was Adam Sandler's Waterboy, an adolescent masterpiece. Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" resides permanently in my Walkman. The lives and hairstyles...
...CUBS: The only team ever to have won more regular-season games than this year's Yankees (116), and they did it in a shorter season. But the game played by the Cubs of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance--the game everyone played until Babe Ruth came along--was a rough scramble for runs made of walks, bunts, stolen bases and singles. The Cubs' top power hitter, Wildfire Schulte, managed all of seven home runs, typical for the era. If a club like this one had to play the highly evolved 1998 version of the game, it would be bashed...
...knows. "Our research suggests it has something to do with shifting the body's internal clock," says Dr. Al Lewey, a psychiatrist at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. The body is programmed to start the day with sunrise, Lewey explains, and this gets later as the days get shorter. But why such subtle shifts make some people melancholy and not others is a mystery...
...FLOCKHART, who has lately been the subject of rumors suggesting she is suffering from anorexia. In the show's first season, Ally's notorious upper-thigh-grazing skirts revealed an Audrey Hepburn-like reediness. But a skeleton-hugging sheath at last month's Emmys and this season's still shorter frocks seem to indicate a frame even more devoid of substance. When Flockhart missed a day of work recently, idle minds began speculating that it was because of an eating disorder. Reps for Flockhart and Fox, McBeal's network, call the story "bogus," and Flockhart went on L.A. radio...