Word: stoplights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last week I made $30,000," she said from her cell phone, pausing at a stoplight to sign an autograph for a fan. "I bought into Infospace.com and forgot about it. It ended up splitting. eBay is going to be huge, of course. I sell my underwear on eBay. One time I auctioned off a day on the set with me. I got $10,000." I'll put my money in any company that sells used underwear...
...eight miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite a lineup for a one-stoplight town--but nothing out of the ordinary for a summer opera festival that is increasingly regarded as the best of its kind...
...might think that if I got into a taxi and the driver began making graphic references to sex acts, I'd jump out at the first stoplight. But when it happened to me earlier this year, I wasn't even alarmed. For one thing, the driver was a woman. For another, the sexual references were parts of jokes she was telling about current events. And lately, I had heard jokes like them in plenty of private conversations--even from my own mother...
While we are waiting for the midnight call of "It's over" to signal the end of the shift, we drive around the block. At a stoplight, another squad car bumps into the back of our car, causing us both to turn around. The officers in the other car jokingly turn on the take-downs, and we squint as they pull alongside laughing...
...most measures, Minong, Wis., is anything but cosmopolitan. It is a town of 520 people in the north woods, too small to have a movie theater or even a stoplight. Yet it is the home of a genuine multinational: Link Snacks, Inc., which rings up export sales of as much as $12 million a year to more than a dozen countries and stations sales representatives in Tokyo, Moscow and Regina, Saskatchewan, as well as Minneapolis, Minn. Not bad, considering 1) the company was in Chapter 11 only 10 years ago; and 2) its products--meat snacks, especially beef jerky...