Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaders of the defense fund felt the six-story, 76-foot tall building planned for One Brattle, which now houses the HMV music store, would be simply too big for its surroundings...
Russian fighter jets today fired rockets at the presidential palace in Grozny three times, despite Russian President Boris Yeltsin's public order Wednesday to halt furtherair raids on Chechnya's ruined capital. At least one bomb hit the tall concrete building squarely, setting off a fire on the upper floors, but claiming no casualties as Chechen officials kept to the basement and first floor. (Chechnya's president, Dzhokhar Dudayev, reportedly is concealed in a bunker elsewhere.) TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan says the action by the Russian military -- who are no nearer to containing the crisis -- suggests Yeltsin...
...smoke inhalation. The only known sighting of him took place in 1987, when he left a concealed bomb outside a Salt Lake City computer store. A witness there helped police fashion their composite sketch of a white man now in his late 30s or early 40s, nearly 6 ft. tall, with fair hair, a thin mustache and glasses. Then the bomber vanished for more than six years, leading some authorities to speculate that he may have been in prison or a psychiatric facility. In June 1993 he re- emerged when a bomb injured Charles Epstein, a geneticist at the University...
...entries on our best and worst lists, you would think one would perfectly sum up the year 1994. Love! Valour! Compassion!, the title of Terrence McNally's new play, No. 2 on our Theater list, doesn't really do it; but would the top choice, Three Tall Women by Edward Albee, serve any better? Supermodel Nadja Auermann, the stratospheric antiwaif, does appear on the People list -- but that's only one tall woman. As for the other lists -- yes, Lutoslawski's symphonies are beautiful, and Andre Agassi showed unwonted grit at the U.S. Open, and The Lion King features...
...Three Tall Women...