Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less disarmingly, a city where even the central Underground Atlanta mall posts "Rules of Etiquette" also unabashedly proclaims itself "a nude dancing mecca," where a single escort service lists more than 100 different options in the Yellow Pages, and the giveaway tourist guide, This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city...
...write about the landmark court decision this week that found the law "profoundly repugnant" and unconstitutional. "This is a story that had a lot to do with the life or death of the Web," Quittner says. "Without free speech, the Internet would have been little more than an interactive Yellow Pages...
...enough to squelch narrative interest in her people, Proulx often introduces parenthetical flash-forwards detailing the ways in which her characters will die: "(Some year or two later, Snakes, using a climbing rope with a single core in a color pattern of purple, neon pink, teal and fluorescent yellow, hung himself in the cab of his truck. A note on the seat read, 'I'm not going to wear glasses.')" The emphasis in this passage pervades the entire novel: things survive and are worth careful descriptions, while people are passing fancies. That could have been conveyed more economically than...
...junior Phi Beta Kappan laughs as he describes the sophisticated color-coded highlighting system that he used for assigned readings during his freshman and sophomore years. Back then, he used yellow, purple, green, orange and blue. Purple was always reserved for the most important passages...
When asked about the incident, Witzel rushed for his bookshelf and pulled out a translation of a Sanskrit text and turned to a page covered with yellow dots...