Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion offer for the owner of Sheraton hotels and Caesar's casinos earlier this year. For the second time in two years, ITT is slicing itself into three separate, publicly traded companies. The parts will be ITT Destinations, a hospitality and gaming company; ITT Corp., publisher of overseas Yellow Pages directories; and ITT Educational Services, a group of technical schools...
...view. On her hit song Bitch, Meredith Brooks declares that she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit...
...observing the natural wonders around her. She learns how stars and flowers were defined with the same Coptic words, and exchanges poems with wise, sand-hardened guides. Even when she goes fishing, she comes upon the "green unicorn fish," which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes, is "a treasure trove of odd objects from around the world." In that regard, it is a perfect mirror of her book...
...Scandal. Illicit activities. There. Now you're reading...or at least that's what the newspapers would lead you to believe. Tabloids like the National Enquirer and The Star make their money from tawdry journalism--if yellow journalism was the sobriquet for sketchy political writing and slightly unconventional reporting style, their writing would best be labeled red, for ignominy. The screaming headlines and conspiratorial accusations and the near voyeuristic exposes of public peoples' private lives make a mockery of the profession and of the noble possibilities of a free press...
...Suppose further that they had not only removed the stop signs but also replaced them with go signs or, better yet, billboards advertising how cool it is to zip heedlessly through intersections without being bothered by irritating, petty-minded, governmental instructions. In fact, make those very attractive billboards featuring yellow-slickered cowboys or a suave camel named Joe. Then what do you think the sentence would have been...