Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These were all features of the Hotel Frantour, situated in Paris' slightly-less-than-classy 18th arrondissement. That would be north of the city's popular red light district, where only three nights later a bouncer offered to wave the fee if my female friends and I would accompany several of our male companions at a sex show...
...want to know specifically what this noble-sounding group is "defending." They claim to be defending the integrity--the "feel"--of the Square, protecting it from destruction by a wave of cheap fast-food establishments. In the words of Gladys "Pebble" Gifford, the group's president, "I just don't want to see a Starbucks on every corner of every street...
...proud of their children and want to keep them from repeating parents' past mistakes. But this itself is a twisted idea, as one irked first-year reveals, "My father always tells me and my friends to make sure that we study statistics. He insists that it's `the wave of the future,' but I think it's because he thinks statistics would have helped him in his own career...
...order in which an athlete named Kyoko skated for the U.S. and a Dusty tended goal for Japan (while Sweden's Ulf Samuelsson was forced off the team when it was found he carried a U.S. passport too and so was no longer technically Swedish). Dutchmen turned the M-Wave speed-skating arena into a province of Holland with their jolly, orange-clad fans--the Brazilians of winter--and their nine medals (out of 15). Gianni Romme, after winning the first of his two world-record golds, said there was nothing special about his country's program: "We are Dutch...
KATE WINSLET The young, winsome star of Titanic leads a wave of British nominees for the Best Actress Oscar...