Word: cream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want and when you want them. At the basic end of the scale, Netgrocer.com wants to send you nonperishables like cereal or juice in a FedEx box sometime in the next four days. At the other, San Francisco-based Webvan will bring you hideously perishable stuff like ice cream and iceberg lettuce within a 30-min. window...
...squared. Just wait till you hear about land blimps. As more and more sites promise faster and faster deliveries (check out urbanfetch.com or kozmo.com which delivers videos, ice cream and best-selling novels to your door in under an hour in five cities), experts expect the arrival of what Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future calls "convenience stores on wheels," vehicles on a permanent cruise between warehouses and your garage...
Observing these blessed creatures, coveting their unearned good fortune, is Damon's Ripley, more muted and awkward than they but a fast study. Ripley's outsider status is what especially appealed to Minghella, 45, a playwright and former professor whose Italian immigrant parents still make and sell ice cream on the Isle of Wight. "This sense of a man with his nose pressed up against the window, the sense that there's a better life being led by other people--to me, these feelings are familiar and pungent...
Bagel Buzz Saw, a conveyor belt coupled with a fast spinning blade which flings hinge-cut bagels at high speed toward employees spreading cream cheese and making sandwiches...
...just swiped the side off of this gray Volvo." She had a gray Volvo. We went outside and the car was fine. He had a big old laugh. So we said "We're gonna get you." So we got about ten football players, a bunch of tissue, tape, shaving cream and streamers. And we wrapped them around his truck. And we had football players pick up his truck and turn it horizontal in the parking place. We were like "We told you you were going DOWN!" The principal called us into the office next week pretending there was some serious...