Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...motor home looks like a carnival curiosity. Women walking with their children look quizzically at the vehicle and ask if there's a book giveaway. They have trouble believing that Booker is a city councilman. "Does he know what neighborhood he's in?" asks Maryann DiCostonzi, 39, who grew up here...
...other kind of daddy. He's so laid back, he could have a second career as a futon. But you can see why he works so well with anxious, career-minded stars: he exudes an aura of calm. Jerkins works out of Pleasantville in part because he grew up in the area, but also so he can avoid all the drama that comes with recording in New York City. Okay, maybe he can be a little too mellow. During an interview, he also reads and sends messages on his Motorola two-way pager. "Just got a page from Carole Bayer...
...also be able to play your old PlayStation games--may be the most hotly anticipated entertainment device since the checkers board. Once Sony finally named a date (Oct. 26) and a price ($299) for its U.S. machine at E3 in Los Angeles last week, the attendant buzz grew louder than a billion boom boxes...
...Tudor's piercingly nostalgic The Leaves Are Fading as in his own up-to-the-second pieces. This is no coincidence. "I cherish the ballet vocabulary," he says. "Its formalism is a vehicle to achieve the divine within us. But I'm also an American pop-culture person--I grew up watching Charlie's Angels reruns and going to rave nightclubs five nights a week --and I think it can be put in a big martini shaker and married with classicism." That could be his motto: Classicism Rocks...
...produced a society in which, as the Soviets used to joke, they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work. In fact, socialism did work at one period in history: during the 1930s, and again in the '50s and '60s, socialist economies like that of the U.S.S.R. grew faster than their capitalist counterparts. But they stopped working sometime during the 1970s and '80s, just as Western capitalist societies were beginning to enter what we now call the information...