Word: customizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premise is custom-made to shock: five people take their pleasure by making love in the twisted wrecks of cars. Not simple thrill seekers, these folks have turned their kink into a cult, elevated making out in the backseat to sadomasochistic levels, converted rubbernecking into a black art. They preach "the reshaping of the human body by modern technology." Their grail is James Dean's Porsche Spyder 550; their relics are photos of Jayne Mansfield's fatal collision. Kinda creepy...
...Miriam and Max Weinstein; the company is named after them.) After a stint as rock-concert promoters in Buffalo, New York, Harvey and Bob got into film distribution, making their rep with the 1989 hits sex, lies, and videotape and My Left Foot. Often they saw themselves as custom tailors, trimming foreign films to make them more accessible to U.S. audiences and earning the elder brother the withering sobriquet "Harvey Scissorhands...
...more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short trips, that's a clear sign that Deng has indeed died." It's unlikely that the government would keep Deng's death a secret, Waller says. While the government guards Deng's medical condition closely, Chinese custom is to announce deaths quickly. Waller adds that Deng, who has not been seen in public since 1994, has long since transferred power to other leaders and divested himself of all formal titles. U.S. officials hope that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will get a better fix on the situation when...
...more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short trips, that's a clear sign that Deng has indeed died." It's unlikely that the government would keep Deng's death a secret, Waller says. While the government guards Deng's medical condition closely, Chinese custom is to announce deaths quickly. Waller adds that Deng, who has not been seen in public since 1994, has long since transferred power to other leaders and divested himself of all formal titles. U.S. officials hope that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will get a better fix on the situation when...
Marty's son Miles, 9, was born with congenital birth defects. Throughout his 34 surgeries, he felt the need to identify with a friend like himself. So he and his mom created "buddies," custom-made dolls whose features match the disease or disability of the patient: the oncology doll has tubes; the orthopedic doll has leg braces. About 13,000 buddies have been distributed by hospitals and corporations...