Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past. "Fast" cultures fret over Y2K, and slower ones, some even with their own calendar (in Nepal or Ethiopia, say) hardly acknowledge that a new millennium is coming at all. The jangledness of inhabiting several time frames at once is the hallmark of our jet-lagged age. The clappers bang together on the sidewalk in Toronto, but they mark a clock without a face...
Everything else--including space and time, which he melded into a single entity called space-time--is relative, as malleable as rubber. The Big Bang theory further established that space-time came into existence at a definite point in the past. Talking about what happened "before" the Big Bang is meaningless--as absurd as talking about what lies north of the North Pole...
...take to install the cable modem. These turned out to be untrue. Since I already had a TV-cable outlet in my home office, it took the cable guy half an hour to plug in the modem, drop an Ethernet card into my PC and configure it all. Bing, bang, I'm online at 5 or more megabits...
Next, Dawkins tightened the screws on the door, making it more difficult to move from one side to the other. Even when the hen was forced to bang into the door in order to open it (i.e., she injured herself), she nonetheless pushed in order to get into the compartment with chipped wood...
...alternative-spaces movement of the 1970s, which was a great push on the part of artists to create their own institutions to exhibit their own work just the way they want, without having to deal with stuffy curators or pushy gallery directors looking for the next big-bang art star. Some of the spaces now in Boston, like Bromfield and Mobius, started in the '70s; others have started up more recently, but with much the same spirit. While a few spaces, like Kingston and Mills, resemble commercial galleries, most are more like ramshackle clubhouses for artists. Many are inside artist...