Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...five gold medals and Tommy Lee was going to win Pamela Anderson's heart back. No, no, no and no. Even when it seemed like something happened this year, it didn't. Elian looked at Disney World and went back home. We kept our Miranda rights. Those missing top-secret computer hard drives at Los Alamos were behind the copy machine. Nobody, it turned out, married a multi-millionaire...
...specialty stores in malls were down nearly 10% from a year ago, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. Sears has moved its after-Christmas sale to the week before, urging shoppers that this is "no time to fool around." Everyone from the Gap and Victoria's Secret to Circuit City, Wal-Mart and Home Depot is feeling the pain. Even online shopping isn't growing as fast as expected. Last week eToys announced its sales were lower than expected and it may run out of money in the spring. "For the consumer," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist...
...stage. Jane, the plain but plucky orphan, travels from the home of an aunt who hates her to a strict religious school that tries to drum the spirit out of her, to a position as governess in a fine house whose master, Mr. Rochester, is hiding a dark secret upstairs. There are talkative servants, glittery parties, mysterious doings in the middle of the night and, as usual, the triumph of goodness and sincerity over the restrictions of class and social propriety...
...with music and lyrics (beware of newcomers who do both) by Paul Gordon. Lacking either the melodic sweep of Andrew Lloyd Webber or the anthemic vitality of the Les Miz team, the music blends together into one pseudo-operatic murk. The lyrics, full of talk about spring mornings and secret souls, are no better, flattening Jane's spirit as firmly as any of her Victorian taskmasters. In the novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous decision, at age 18, to leave her stultifying school and strike out on her own. She writes up a newspaper ad seeking employment, trudges miles...
...preparations for the impending Inauguration of George W. Bush, the son of the man who waged the Persian Gulf War. The FBI's crisis command center is operating 24-7, with agents working through the Christmas and New Year's holidays. As the Inauguration approaches, the FBI, DOD, Secret Service and other local and federal units will run counterterror exercises in the Washington area...