Word: thom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About six years ago, Color Marketing Group (CMG), a 36-year-old association of color designers from around the world, collaborated to make brown the color of the mid-1990s according to Thom A. Robinson at Color Portfolio, a New York-based color selection service...
...director of Chinatown to return to America. The 20-year-old warrant issued for Polanski's arrest is still in effect. He fled to Paris, fearing he would have to serve serious time for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. But Polanski's friend and producer Thom Mount says he asked the director about the talk of a return and "there's no truth in it whatsoever." In any case, the D.A.'s office says there will be no deal unless Polanski surrenders, at which time a judge will decide his sentence. Meanwhile, the girl in question, Samantha...
...oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course, "like a rocket, the heat tore down her fingertips" may not be as poetic as Poe's words, but the principle is the same. THOM KERR Englewood, Colo...
...cool place to visit, but if you stay too long, things could start breaking down. The album's sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic passages that take their own sweet time to work themselves out; jangling, spacey guitar work--all of it threaded together by singer Thom Yorke's yearning tenor, hitting and holding notes with almost operatic emotion. The lyrics display an X-Files-ish romanticism: one song, Subterranean Homesick Alien, is about a man who longs to be abducted by UFOs...
...reason for separate congregations is that they make saving souls easier. A doctrine called the "homogeneous unit principle" says churches "grow faster when you have people of a like culture worshipping together," notes Thom Rainer, a dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Explains Van Kicklighter, a church-planting strategist: "Our overriding concern is reaching an unreached group of people and planting witnesses among them. Our purpose is not necessarily to be multiethnic." That's also true for many immigrant and African-American ministers. "God doesn't want us to separate out," says Sanon, "but for some reason...