Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sinking ship, mice teem over this one. There are mouse ears on the walls, lamps and smokestacks. A life-size Mickey strolls the decks, waving a cheery hi. Minnie is also aboard, flirting shamelessly; if she spoke, she would be saying, "Hello, sailor!" A huge Goofy adorns the stern. And when the Magic leaves port, the ship's horn blasts seven ominous notes: "When...you...wish...up...on...a...star...
...monasteries have demolished the stereotypical image of stern abbots and mothers superior. As has always been the case with visitors to monasteries and abbeys, there are no schedules, no expectations. No one is asked his or her religion. There are no sermons or bulletins choked with announcements and committee assignments, just the gentle rocking of the chants. Participating at services is not required, and if those on retreat spend their entire time sequestered behind closed doors or meditatively walking the often expansive acreage, the monks bless that too. "People come here and think they're supposed to sit in chapel...
...Commissioner David Stern and players' union rep Billy Hunter meet to discuss the league's labor stalemate. But don't look for an end to the lockout anytime soon -- Stern goes on vacation next week...
...earnings of $8.1 million--following three straight years of losses. Ten thousand dollars' worth of Yahoo purchased at IPO in 1996 would be worth $1.68 million today. "Investors are treating the Internet as if it were the next television industry," says economist Lawrence White of New York University's Stern School of Business...
What Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil has engendered an astonishing banality of explanation. A 1991 installment of television's Unsolved Mysteries focused on three "Diabolic Minds"--those of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer, it seems, "had a stern father and was unable to establish a healthy relationship to his mother." Auschwitz resulted, you see, from the child Adolf's low self-esteem. A 1981 book published in Germany suggested in all seriousness that when Hitler was a youth, a billy goat took a bite out of his penis. Hence his subsequent career...