Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once I'd lost my pharmaceutical virginity, it was impossible to get it back. The Prozac, as my doctor had warned it might, stalled my libido. From approximately my waist down to my knees, I felt like the Invisible Man. I tried another drug, Effexor, but didn't like the trembling in my hands. Next came Wellbutrin. It packed a punch. The week I started taking it I was watching CNN when news of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination broke. I wept through the night and the following day. Oddly, the crying felt good, like a catharsis, and I wondered...
Until a new CEO is on board, Jobs is up to his trim 35-in.-waist jeans in determining Apple's future. "I'm here almost every day," he said, sitting in the boardroom last week, "but just for the next few months. I'm really clear on it." His position is fairly critical to the company's success, according to Edgar Woolard Jr., chairman of E.I. DuPont and one of only two board members who survived the latest assault. "It's conceivable Apple could turn around without Steve, but the probability goes up significantly with Steve. Steve is noted...
...teammates. "Hey, what's up, man?" third baseman Charlie Hayes said upon meeting Irabu. "He's a big old boy," said Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu at his stops in Florida, Connecticut, upstate...
...wrestling. The b-ball brawlers were an unlikely duo: the Knicks' Bible-toting Charlie Ward and the Heat's P.J. Brown, winner of the league's citizenship award. Near the end of the game, Ward backed into Brown, almost upending him. Brown then hooked an arm around Ward's waist, flipped him as if he were a cheerleader and threw him to the floor. Knicks Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Larry Johnson and John Starks left their bench, a lesser N.B.A. no-no. The N.B.A. gave a record five Knicks a one-game suspension. Miami's Brown was suspended...
...takes stock of his dwindling physical inventory and starts thinking not of empire building but of simple maintenance in health, family and career--the preservation, for just a few more years, dear God, of the suddenly precious status quo. Growth is measured in the spreading acreage around the waist, or in that weird cyst on your neck that makes you wonder if you've been infiltrated by aliens. The people you work with, who used to be older and as stuffy as your parents, are now younger, as mysterious as your kids, and taking over. Fifty is a time...