Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cornell lineman Tom Crone made the big stop for the Big Red, and Princeton never recovered...
...Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, sold during its first day of availability last November. "Tom Wolfe's was set in Atlanta," she says, "so it was the hottest book we'd ever had." Until, that is, the new Harry Potter hit the shelves...
...critics can't help poking fun at him. Why so serious? And considering the status of Purdy's heroes--from the great French essayist Montaigne to the brave Polish dissident Adam Michnik--the objects of his derision seem like straw men. Purdy singles out for special scorn management guru Tom Peters, who teaches disciples to think of themselves as commercial, brand-named products; the cyber- magazines Wired and Fast Company, which promote, in Purdy's view, greed and self-absorption; and Jerry Seinfeld, whom Purdy calls, in a tone once reserved for Satan and serial killers, "irony incarnate...
Linden completed 51 percent of his passes last year for 1,201 yards, but his 3-to-8 touchdown-to-interception ratio was unacceptable. Nevertheless, he trails only Tom Yohe '89 in career passing yards and is second in career completion percentage and touchdown passes...
...Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) hardly seems the prescient sort. Yet when he is hypnotized at a party, he tumbles into nightmares--or is it another dimension?--harboring fatal secrets. Scenarist Koepp (Jurassic Park) smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...