Word: showing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. RORY CALHOUN, 76, rugged film and TV heartthrob; of complications from diabetes and emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. While horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...
SNORE SCARE As if expectant mothers don't have enough to worry about. Now two studies show a curious link between snoring and high blood pressure. One found that snoring moms-to-be are more than twice as likely to have elevated blood pressure--and three times as likely to give birth to underweight infants. Another shows that when nighttime breathing problems are corrected with a mechanical device, elevated blood-pressure levels fall...
...well, the Beanie Baby. When Pokemon was introduced in Japan in 1996, the characters immediately captivated the preteen set, particularly young boys. Pokemon creatures such as Pikachu (a yellow catlike mite) and Poliwhirl (a disk with bulging eyes) were soon presiding over a media juggernaut, including an animated TV show and trading cards, and appearing on everything from cell phones to hot-dog packages...
...fever has spread to the U.S. Within a month of its debut last September, the TV series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with...
...said one day, show me Zelda. Nat grinned. And like a giddy tour guide, he showed me Princess Zelda's kingdom. "You gotta see this. Look what happens when you go to the Temple of Time. Check out the graphics when you use the light arrows." The game, as it turned out, was a synthesis of Arthurian legend, Tolkien mythology and Marvel comic books. It was devilishly difficult. Besides mastering arcane weapons (no blood, though), he had to memorize different sequences of tones--magic songs that transported the hero. There were puzzles to solve, strategies to plot...