Word: windows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share of the population. Some delegates tried again at this convention to push reform, but they got nowhere. Meanwhile, minority attendance at G.O.P. conventions is inflated by nonvoting "auxiliaries" affiliated with the R.N.C. Says a member of the National Black Republican Council, the auxiliary for African Americans: "We're window dressing." But the window last week was a big one: almost every camera searched for their faces...
...general, trans-Martian travel is possible for only six to eight weeks every 25 months; it is then that Mars' and Earth's orbital pas de deux around the sun brings the two planets close enough to make the trip practical. The next window opens this fall, and NASA intends to take advantage of it. Between Nov. 6 and Dec. 31, the space agency will launch two missions to Mars. The first, the Mars Global Surveyor, is an orbiter that will arrive in September 1997 and spend at least four months circling the planet and mapping its geology and climate...
...pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...
...Star Factor: Getting a glimpse of the stars' homes is as hard as life without oxygen, but getting directions there is a piece of cake. While your rental car is being squeegeed by a helpful road-side window cleaner, you will come face to face with a Maps of the Stars' Homes stand on the corner and inevitably be offered one for sale. Hey, it beats the Tours of the Stars' Homes, given by minivan...
When the officers put the man in the back of the car, "he started banging his head against the window and kicked the rear window of the cruiser out"--a fairly uncommon occurrence, Riley said...