Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stone's new movie, JFK -- out this week -- which argues that Jack Kennedy was felled in a carefully concealed coup d'etat. Stone said our comments were part of an Establishment cover-up (they were not). Finally we got together to discuss his views. "He came armed to the teeth with his research," says correspondent Martha Smilgis. "It still didn't convince me that there was a general conspiracy, but his movie gets you thinking...
...event does have its inspiring moments. Steve Dunleavy, the Outback Geraldo Rivera, who cut his journalistic teeth at Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist New York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...
...over the Imperial Valley, massing on the undersides of leaves and sucking plants dry, weakening or killing them in the process. Farmers first noticed the flies getting worse in July, and by September swarms of them looked like white clouds. They covered windshields and got stuck between people's teeth. Farm workers had trouble inhaling and eventually had to wear masks. Not since the Mediterranean fruit-fly scares of the early and late 1980s has California's $18 billion agriculture industry, which during winter supplies close to 90% of the fresh produce in the continental U.S., been so alarmed...
Even after the hysterical handwringing and gnashing of teeth in the American media spread north of the 49th parallel, PC still meant the same thing to Canadians that it always did: the Progressive Conservative party, also known as the Tories, the party currently running the government...
Well, you wouldn't recognize the Rock once Gaunt sinks his teeth into it. The quiet little town where people drive Yugos and natter about Demi Moore turns into one hell of a burg. That's because the residents just can't stay away from needful things, buying stuff like folk medicine that mysteriously cures pain and cars that drive on no gas at all and just about anything else that can tempt greedy souls to trade away their most precious possession...