Word: loop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago shows signs of fighting back. The city council has approved a zoning change for a building in the Loop that would be 67 ft. higher than the towers in Kuala Lumpur. For all I know, the airport authority is secretly figuring out how to jam enough additional passengers into O'Hare to pass up Atlanta, even if some software drummers trying to make connections get crushed like bugs in the process...
...Shoulders, the Second City. Somebody reminded me that if Liebling were writing now, he'd have to call Chicago the Third City; Los Angeles has more people. Does that mean that some Chicago booster is concocting a scheme to annex Moline and move its population to the Loop? If so, please, stop...
...returns to the emotional center of the adventure. In that sense, it reminds us why such films as The Neverending Story or the original Stars Wars movies were worth watching in the first place. As a recent convert myself, I can see why all readers out of the loop might be hard to convince. But all I can say is this: go see Princess Mononoke, the new anime film starring Minnie Driver and Claire Danes. You might just become a convert...
Ironically, though, it is just this liberal acceptance that dangerously provokes those who harbor hate or prejudice to lash out violently. Homophobes are feeling pretty out of the loop these days...
...culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called "an unavoidable, seemingly endless loop" of pornography. Motive for the scam: to boost the number of visits to the porn site--and thus charge advertisers more...