Word: tomato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters who fail to evolve, and he suspects that it was not worth the expense or the 10 years of development effort. "Thanks to the dictates of the blockbuster mentality," he writes, "the shelf life of many movies has come to be somewhat shorter than ((that of)) a supermarket tomato...
...news, play countless rounds of hand, the 14-card Kuwaiti version of gin rummy, and recall receiving Iraqi television transmissions at home in Kuwait. "Saddam was on all the time," says a Kuwaiti minister. "On any given day you could see him instructing women on how to make tomato paste, or children on how to brush their teeth. It was some of the best comedy around...
...going to name them Tom or Dick or Harry," Ray says about her children. "I really like the name `Tomato.'" Whatever name she decides on, she adds, "it won't be an everyday name...
That is the way great ideas end, not with a bang, not with a whimper, but through reductio ad absurdum. You know investment bankers are not satisfied until every good idea is driven into the ground like a tomato stake...
CAPTION: HOW TO MAKE A LONGER-LASTING TOMATO...