Word: thought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than he promised. In 1993, when he was only writing all 23 episodes of his one show, Picket Fences, he told TIME, "I don't plan to continue at this pace. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who factors longevity into his lifetime plan." He probably thought he meant that. But even earlier, as a busy lawyer who had never written before, he used the time while waiting for his court cases to be called to write the 1987 Judd Nelson movie, From...
Sometimes the best technology is hardly any technology at all. At least that's what I thought last week as I whizzed through Central Park for the 10th time in half as many days on a spiffy new pair of in-line skates. With surprisingly little sweet talking, I had convinced my editor that the latest models deserved a critical, hands-on--or rather, feet-on--look...
...were in the drugstore of a little town in Arizona and met a man in his 60s, shopping. He wore a cowboy hat and sported two revolvers--one for each leg. When we saw that he had a third gun slipped into the back of his jeans waistband, we thought it best to leave. You would see nothing like this here in Italy or in any other European country. Did this man really need three guns to go to the drugstore? Smokers are outcasts now in the U.S.; I would like to see the same thing happen to gun lovers...
...HOME IS HIS OFFICE If you thought most people working at home were women with kids, you would be wrong. A recent Home Based Employment & Family Life study shows that men account for 59% of those whose office is at home. Typically, such a worker is a 44-year-old man in a field like sales or contracting...
Nothing, that is, but the most obviously addling issue of all, the one that obsessively preoccupies everyone, namely celebrity. Why no one up to now has thought to use fame as true love's great obstacle is a nice question. But here, at last, is Notting Hill, and it makes something utterly charming--and very smart--out of the efforts of the world's most famous and desirable movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), and William Thacker (Hugh Grant), the world's most anonymous bookseller, to get together...