Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond his 60-plus records and 2857 career points, Gretzky earned his title for serving as a hockey prophet, preaching his game to a land of non-believers--America...
...permanent departure from the ice exposes a leadership crisis in the NHL. A new prophet needs to be appointed to continue the work he started and attempt to raise hockey's profile...
...unlikely cyberculture hero. After all, he was F.D.R.'s World War II science czar, organized the Manhattan Project and helped create the postwar military-industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today...
...doesn't cling to her past--she just blows off her past. She doesn't have any country or nationality. She doesn't stick with one lover. She is really someone who is escaping the boundaries of our bourgeois existence. I think she's an adventurer, a mad prophet...
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