Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accommodations: Extra-long mattress, goose-down pillows or hypo-allergenic pillows, mini bar, hand milled soap, luxury bathroom including bath gel and moisturizing lotion...
Happiness doesn't easily admit to comparisons; though it carries echoes of Manhattan, Nashville and Hartley's pictures, it has a unique equipoise of soap opera and slasher film. After Solondz's scabrous little preteen angstathon, Welcome to the Dollhouse, earned more than $4 million on a budget of $800,000, October Films sponsored his next, $3 million project. But October was pressured this summer by its corporate parent, Universal Pictures, to dump the film. It will be released, unrated, by its own production company...
...found in black literature to fire her dreams of rising beyond the back-breaking work that seemed the destiny of most of the black people she knew. "I remember Grandma trying to teach me how to wash clothes and lay them across the line with clothespins, making lye soap, killing the hogs, wringing the chickens' necks, and she'd say, 'Watch me, 'cause you're going to have to learn how to do this,'" Winfrey recalls. "And I remember thinking, 'Don't need to watch Grandma, because my life isn't going to be like this.'" Watching Diana Ross...
...dark sky over Maize High School near Wichita, Kans. In sandals and shorts, Blake, 16, approached his school's blue flagpole. He leaned forward, placed his hands on it and bowed his head. Soon he was joined by four friends, all jeans-clad and smelling sweetly of soap and shampoo. They formed a circle, and someone entreated the Lord aloud: "I pray you do wonders through the pole and let your wonders show through the pole." First a trickle, then dozens of students arrived; eventually more than 200 gathered in tight concentric circles around the pole. They prayed for Maize...
...immortality is on the line. Or maybe it's just because Sosa is such a nice guy. Either way, when he hit 61 and 62, Chicago fans threw him a little party, Dominicans in New York City have taken to writing Sosa's name and home-run count in soap on buses and car windows, and more than 100 reporters have credentials to the Cubs' clubhouse. Infielder Mickey Morandini, looking for a seat in the dugout before a game last Thursday, asked, "Is this the player bench or the media bench...