Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite word, a routinely "seedy" coupling. Until the afternoon when, taking a break from their lovemaking, Maurice steps out of the room and a buzz bomb strikes. She thinks he's dead, drops to her knees and prays: if God will spare him, she will give him up. Whereupon Maurice returns to the bedroom, stunned but intact...
...five under their belts, all convinced they were being screwed in one way or another by an Army that had them after they signed that X. One guy I talked to had failed at a rare bit of exercise and had been sent to "fat camp," whereupon he passed the test the very next day. Three weeks later he was still there, sweeping up after the other detainees and hiding from the drill sergeants' school next door (fat camp and a steady stream of newly anointed drill sergeants make for fun times, apparently...
That theme was at once simple and sophisticated: a man (or sometimes a group of men), without thinking very hard about it, places his faith either in his own rationality or in the rationality of the systems by which his world is governed, whereupon something goes awry, his illusions of order are stripped away, and he is left to fend with the sometimes deadly, always devastating consequences of that loss...
...have an amusing satire; at 659 pages, you're trying to create something Important. There are two problems with this strategy: first, to get it all in, Andersen is forced to spin scenes in which one character sort of asks another, "Tell me about how that works"--whereupon Andersen hijacks the character's voice for an invariably brilliant riff on news anchors or online stock trading or the politics of software...
...always remember the regent's axiom: A leader,' he said, is like a sheperd. He stays behind the flock letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind...