Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newcomers to the Internet are often startled to discover themselves not so much in some soulless colony of technocrats as in a kind of cultural Brigadoon -- a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many), but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal- computer revolution...
...official: astronomers finally have irrefutable evidence of a solar system beyond our own. But fans of alien life can't celebrate yet: the three confirmed planets are orbiting the dim remnant of a star that exploded long...
...teeth out before leaving for Africa. It was considered a sort of prophylactic, but one that subjected them to a lifetime of discomfort. Tigger sewed, cooked, tended to animals routinely: there is a wonderfully precise description of how to sit a hen and how to candle an egg. The remnant of civilized life that every woman sought was a bolt of Liberty fabric. Lessing apparently has a formidable sense of smell. Before easy dry cleaning, everybody's clothes smelled bad. Nuns -- she attended a convent school for a while -- smelled even worse...
...decades after it was abandoned as a dining hall in the mid-1920s, Memorial Hall was preserved only by neglect; many remember the administration's past hostility to the building, which was considered an unwanted remnant of the Victorian...
...impressive; as Pauline Kael wrote in her review, the film almsot seems to play itself out in a medieval present. At first there is a temptation to mock the seriousness of the film and the self-importance of the Knight's quest, which at times appears like a remnant of 1950s existentialist philosophy; but the images in "The Seventh Seal" are so hypnotically charged that one is pulled in and held fast...