Word: swath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disturbing Behavior, directed by The X-Files' David Nutter, has a Stepford-teens premise with slacker appeal (all the well-behaved kids with good grades have been lobotomized on the say-so of their evil parents), and Holmes looks terrif as a Draculette punkster (nose ring, bicep tattoo, a swath of bare midriff). But the film goes haywire with torture scenes reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. Which makes this a clockwork lemon. Halloween: H20, directed by Dawson's Creek's Steve Miner from a story idea by Williamson, sends Jamie Lee Curtis once more against her masked nemesis...
...world's forests burning? Why did uncontrollable fires cut a 7,700-sq.-mi. swath of devastation across Indonesia? Why have the blazes of Mexico sent plumes of smoke across Texas and Louisiana...
Senior tackle Matt Birk was a unanimous First-Team Ivy selection and was selected by his hometown team, the Minnesota Vikings, in the sixth round of the NFL draft. Birk cleared a swath for the other unanimous Harvard selection, sophomore running back Chris Menick. Menick set school records for season rushing yardage (1267) and touchdowns...
...father. This was not a redneck family." By all accounts, Bill Kinkel, 60, who retired from Thurston High after 30 years of teaching Spanish, and Faith, 57, who was head of the language department at Springfield High School, were beloved by their students and cherished by a broad swath of friends. They took Kip and his older sister Kristin, 21, a university student in Honolulu, on skiing and hiking trips and vacations in Europe. Bill Kinkel took his son to basketball games and, when Kip insisted on getting a rifle, to a safety range for instruction...
...Florida Everglades, who led a half-century crusade to preserve the fabled watery wilderness; in Miami. A Wellesley College-educated New Englander, Douglas first came to Florida in 1915. She penned her classic book The Everglades: River of Grass in 1947, lyrically making the case for conserving the swath of swampland, long considered an impediment to real estate developers. She continued as the irrepressible mouthpiece for the marshes, in 1970 founding the Friends of the Everglades--dubbed Marjory's army. Her green streak was only natural, she told TIME in 1983: "It's women's business to be interested...