Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body. Unfortunately for him, that body is now in Columbus, Ohio, where the Yankee rookie will try to regain the magic that disappeared all too quickly after his July 10 debut. Fortunately for the parents of baseball-playing kids, Irabu's demise came before their offspring could strip their refrigerator doors. Fridge magnets wouldn't have worked anyway; they register around 4 gauss (a measure of magnetic strength) and have north and south poles on both sides, while medical magnets range from 800 to 4,000 gauss and generally have the north pole on one side and the south pole...
...therein lies the problem. Everyone's so worked up, no one can see middle ground. Cyclists wonder why everyone has to have a gas-guzzling utility vehicle with an annoyingly sporty name. What, really, are the chances of encountering falling rocks on the way to the strip mall? At the other end of the spectrum, which in San Francisco is the breadth of the Milky Way, Erik Beckjord has formed Drivers Against Bicycle Anarchy. He says drivers will use, if necessary, "the Club, tire irons, pepper spray and baseball bats" as weapons. In saner moments, Beckjord runs...
...most forgettable roles. If anything, the movie could have used more of the potential spice of the two supporting females: there isn't nearly enough of Illeana Douglas or Olympia Dukakis as Kate's anxious, marriage-obsessed mother (a figure right out of the comic-strip "Cathy," but Dukakis could have added some much-needed edge...
Versace lived directly on busy Ocean Drive, a 15-block strip of Art Deco hotels and sidewalk cafes facing the oceanfront. He didn't even like the mansion's security videocameras to be recording. In the Versace household, everybody had regular routines that would be easy for a killer to know. One of those routines was Versace's morning walk to the News Cafe, four blocks from his home, to buy magazines and a coffee...
Inning seven, Boston: We sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." A little confused about the nature of the seventh-inning stretch, a young, very drunk man decides to strip. He is down to his skivvies when the police appear to arrest him. He seems to sober up after the officers cuff him. He is escorted out, still minus his shirt. Rumors circulate that something important may have happened on the field during the commotion...