Word: zipping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...miss the shiny new glass-and-stone headquarters of UUNet and PSINet, AMS and UUcom, commercial titans of the new Washington. You can't miss the new-economy entrepreneurs in their Lexuses and Land Rovers doing deals on cell phones as they zip around I-66 and Routes 7, 50 and 123. And you certainly can't avoid the traffic. Fifteen years ago, Fairfax, Loudoun and Arlington counties in northern Virginia were nothing but sleepy residential communities and remote farmland, places to drive through on the way to Dulles Airport or concerts at Wolf Trap or camp sites near Front...
...manic pace of Saigon carries over to the streets, where swarms of motorbikes zip through intersections. Cars are too expensive, but the motorbike is at the top of everyone's must-have list. Young bloods race them after dark, and couples use them as a place of intimacy: Vietnamese don't kiss in public, but women know how to hug their boyfriends tightly from behind...
This just in: The Lieberman announcement is a smokescreen - a Democratic strategy to add zip to its convention at Los Angeles' Staples Center arena. This week on the floor, just when the delegates and the dozen or so TV viewers least expect it, Joseph Lieberman will surprise everyone by introducing Al Gore's real running mate and Malibu's best-kept secret: Elvis Presley, alive and well and surprisingly trim due to daily tennis matches with his neighbor, Johnny Carson...
...dressing well and being able to ask someone to find information on those new-fangled computers for them. Interns may walk home to save a buck, only to blow the money on Coronas in smoky bars full of fellow interns. And interns awake in the morning with another hangover, zip and scrunch themselves into the uncomfortable clothes and begin again...
Interestingly, it appears to be the physical action of dialing and holding the phone that causes the most significant distraction; Marlboro officials are still allowing citizens to zip down the highway chatting into a microphone-and-earpiece contraption. I would think that carrying on any kind of totally internalized conversation that tend to block out sounds like sirens, horns and the desperate cries of soon-to-be roadkill might be dangerous, but that's just...