Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should all feel lucky simply to have got out of the 20th century alive. Let's not sweat the big stuff...
...this was a clever reference to the advice Dustin Hoffman gets in The Graduate until I realized that women with fake 34Ds don't joke about plastics. "There is a new company coming out, Botex. It's actually a friend of mine." Oh yeah, baby. This was the insider stuff I was hoping for. "He makes this new kind of plastic they're going to be using on tennis shoes and tires that doesn't wear out. Once that comes out it will be really cool...
...order, always starting online but resorting to 800 numbers in a pinch, find a middle ground between ordering the totally exotic (alligator meat) and the reliably prosaic (ham), and default to vendors in California when in doubt, figuring those geeks in Silicon Valley surely have figured out how to stuff a turkey through a modem...
...arrest came at a tense time for U.S. law-enforcement agents, who are on the lookout for possible terrorism planned to coincide with the millennium celebrations. "He's connected with someone," said Richard Clarke, U.S. national coordinator for counterterrorism. "People don't just walk around with that stuff in their kit bag." One theory is that Noris--who, law-enforcement officials say, is actually an Algerian named Ahmed Ressam, 32--had been dispatched to wreak havoc at the New Year's Eve celebration at Seattle's Space Needle, which is close to a hotel where he had reserved a room...
...There are times I've been rejected that would spin your head around," says Damon. "You wouldn't believe I sat there and let people say stuff like that to me." Before The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting--the one-two punch that threw him into the spotlight and led to six more back-to-back roles, including his latest, in The Talented Mr. Ripley--Damon struggled for seven years to get enough work to feed himself. But tough as those years were, they are eclipsed in his memory by an experience he had when he was nine...