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Word: thingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practical about the Volkswagen Beetle. But like the great cars of yore, it has a personality that lets buyers say, "Look at me!" And so dealers haven't been able to keep them in stock. "The new Beetle fails at most categories," says Nissan's Hirshberg. "The only thing it doesn't fail in is drop-dead charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designed to Be Different | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Some critics dismiss this as "retro," and that draws a grimace from Mays, who prefers words like "progressive." But he admits that one thing he learned in his 14 years of designing cars for Volkswagen/Audi is that you never look forward without first looking over your shoulder. Not surprisingly, the first design from Ford that bears Mays' signature is the 2001 Thunderbird, which at a glance looks distinctly like the 1957 model of the same name. Others must agree, given the fleet of nostalgia-tinged new models coming from the likes of Chrysler, Jaguar and Nissan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designed to Be Different | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...away from violence, was attacked with a bat, a knife and police batons. "I don't understand," Bernardo Repreza Sr. says of a bizarro culture in which having a beer is taboo but clubbing someone to death is A-O.K. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mutant Brady Bunch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Last year, outside a pizza joint, University of Utah student Mike Orthner says, "I asked a stranger for a light, and he said, 'We don't believe in that.'" Next thing Orthner knew, he was clocked with brass knuckles, and "some wacko" was waving a sword. Assault charges against Randy, who claimed he "didn't hit anybody with it," were dropped for lack of evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mutant Brady Bunch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...mother. When I'd kid him about the mistake, he'd laugh hard, turn really red and run a hand over his balding head, his lifelong gesture of consternation. But even then, when I was his "mother," he still managed in some convoluted way to hold on to one thing: he was proud of his daughter at TIME, who had interviewed Fidel Castro and traveled with the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Care Of Our Aging Parents | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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