Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also succeeds as a speaker. Richard Meier managed to keep a packed auditorium of impatient, trendsetting, party hoppers thoroughly entertained for more than an hour. He kept me, with my coat and scarf still on and my bag still around my neck, squeezed between people who were tall enough to prevent my view both of Richard Meier and his slides, happily standing...
...woman if she has encountered similar situations. She will give you an emphatic "yes." Whether she is blond or brunette, tall or short, thin or heavy, daringly dressed or wearing baggy sweatpants and an extra large T-shirt--whether she is what society's conventions consider attractive or not--men will comment, stare and flirt with a persistence that makes traveling salespeople look inattentive by comparison...
...going to miss him. I'll miss his knowledge of Prussian history, his unerring sense of what the Duke of Wellington would do in any situation, his grandiose sense of walking in the boots of Winston Churchill and Ulysses S. Grant. Like Napoleon, he was tall enough to see a future invisible to lesser mortals. A global visionary, he wrote in a calendar unearthed by Slate magazine that on June 30, 1993, he was going to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity" and, when that was done, "define, plan and begin to organize the movement...to help people...pursue happiness...
...late on election night, the suits are up in their suites, brooding and trying to look confident, waiting for the Glocca Morra vote to roll in and save them, and Jesse is strutting tall turkey at his campaign headquarters at the racetrack, looking like everyone's nightmare of a brother-in-law, shaking his big fist, yelling, "We shocked the world!" and comparing himself to Muhammad Ali and the U.S. Olympic hockey team of 1980 that beat the Russians. All across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward...
...year-old singer is a man of mysteries, both tiny and large. He goes by Seal professionally, but his real name is Sealhenry Olumide Samuel. In person he is tall, sleekly muscular and imposingly handsome, with a clean-shaven head and sloped, piercing eyes; his cheeks, however, are rough and pocked, the result of a long-ago lupus episode (something else he prefers not to discuss). Nor is he always comfortable talking about his parents. (His mother was Nigerian and his father Brazilian; both are dead.) Seal was born in London and grew up poor...