Word: slug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inside stores, Coke and Pepsi slug it out as much as anywhere, and you can't buy a soft drink unaffiliated with one of the two. Kellogg's cereals vie for space with Dannon yogurt products. In drug stores, Old Spice, Gillette and Secret occupy the deodorant shelf. Wrangler and Lee jeans, meanwhile, hang in the windows of clothing sellers...
Imagine you are taking a slug of whiskey. a puff of a cigarette. A toke of marijuana. A snort of cocaine. A shot of heroin. Put aside whether these drugs are legal or illegal. Concentrate, for now, on the chemistry. The moment you take that slug, that puff, that toke, that snort, that shot, trillions of potent molecules surge through your bloodstream and into your brain. Once there, they set off a cascade of chemical and electrical events, a kind of neurological chain reaction that ricochets around the skull and rearranges the interior reality of the mind...
...fierce demeanor disappears when she talks about the weekend in Paris she begins the next day with the two sisters, a brother and a niece she adores, thanks, she says, laughing, "to the $299 Air France special Bob Dole advertised right after the election." Whereas Morris was a slug for preaching family values to the campaign while violating them himself, McGann really believes in the notion. Over Christmas, she welcomed Morris' daughter to their Connecticut home for the holidays...
...divine plan, a perfect order. The reason we don't want to acknowledge this is because then we would have to answer to a Creator who will hold us responsible for our actions. If you want to think of yourself as a descendant of a slug, fine. But don't pass it off to the rest of the world as fact. DAVID BROUSSARD Dallas Via E-mail...
...began to create a stir at paleontological gatherings. Startled laughter greeted the unveiling of oddball Opabinia, with its five eyes and fire-hose-like proboscis. Credibility was strained by Hallucigenia, when Conway Morris depicted it as dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called them in his 1989 book, Wonderful Life...