Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like, 'Oh my God! What is going on, and who have I become?'" Anyone who's ever read a tabloid knows how Drew--granddaughter of acting legend John Barrymore--bounced back from prepubescent drug and alcohol problems to become a sober-but-still-free-spirited teenage wild child. She doesn't regret much, certainly not baring her breasts to David Letterman or showing off her butterfly tattoos in Playboy. "When I'm 40, I'm going to get the biggest kick out of looking at that," she laughs. If any scars from her childhood remain, they lie in the self...
...meditation on the farm crisis, religion and the wind-whipped Plains state of North Dakota. That was followed in 1996 by The Cloister Walk, a log of the nine months that Norris, a married Protestant, spent living among the monks at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Readers went wild, keeping it on the best-seller list for 27 weeks...
Ballmer will have plenty of other matters on his screen, however. Personal computer sales are on a downward trend, and the home and small-office/home-office markets, both hailed as the next wave in computing, are stagnant. In addition, that wild and wacky Internet, with its open standards, could potentially topple Microsoft's apple cart, eliminating the need for a Microsoft OS on every desktop...
33.The Call of the Wild, Jack London...
...legend about the origin of the name is that it was a playful acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Yang, however, says they picked it out of a dictionary. "We thought it fit well with what we were doing. It was irreverent, it was reflective of the Wild West nature of the Internet, and a lot of people found it easy to remember, which we thought was probably good." Yang also says that when he asked Moritz if they should change the name to something more serious, Moritz replied that if they did, he'd take back his money...