Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life and so do we. It's show time, time to strut our stuff, to flex our creative genius. If we're going to win this thing, it's clearly not going to be on the basis of our rugged good lucks. We need to demonstrate some intellectual spark. We tear into the application...
...where two-thirds of women are sexually and physically assaulted and guards are promoted for their brutality. A lonely hell where the ones you love cannot be touched and holidays are all seen from behind bars. Prison is a hostile and degrading world where any assertion of self, any spark of resistance--even asking too many questions--may be disciplined by weeks of isolation in the "hole" (solitary confinement) with no human contact...
DIED. LUCILLE LORTEL, 98, patron of noncommercial theater; in New York City. Lortel was dedicated to providing creative havens for innovative artists. At her theaters in Connecticut and New York City, the onetime actress helped spark the careers of Sidney Lumet and Eva Marie Saint and showcased the works of Jean Genet, Sean O'Casey and Edward Albee...
...dramatic reforms have helped spark recovery sooner than most experts expected. The government predicts that growth in South Korea will bounce back to an annual rate of 2% by the second half of this year; by contrast, the economy shrank 5.9% in 1998. "There is no country in the OECD that has made such rapid changes," says Donald Johnston, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. "Historians may look back and say this crisis has left a healthy legacy...
...Montenegro is linked to Serbia by a federal agreement, the state was slowly inching toward democracy--something most locals think Slobodan Milosevic wants to end. Already the streets are kind of pre-battlegrounds, where soldiers loyal to Milosevic vie with police for strategic positions, each nervously waiting for the spark that will make them turn their guns on one another. Political leaders are scrambling to get their families...