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Word: crisscrosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who actually read Salman Rushdie's notorious best seller The Satanic Verses may have absorbed Rushdie's brilliant perception of what the planet has become: old cultures in sudden high-velocity crisscross, a bewilderment of ethnic explosion and implosion simultaneously. The Ayatullah Khomeini's response to Rushdie is (whatever else it is) an exquisite vindication of Rushdie's point. Khomeini's Iranian revolution was exactly a violent repudiation of the new world that the Shah had sponsored. The struggle throughout the Middle East now is, among other things, a collision between Islam and the temptations and intrusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Welcome to The Global Village | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Mind and Body | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

...literary magazine. Most of the story is their post-Cambridge life: two remain in academe, two share a publishing house and a paramour (Judy Geeson), and the most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung to the ideals of youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Clinging to the Ideals of Youth the Common Pursuit by Simon Gray | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...next year the computer network that links Miller's bank card to his grocery register will connect four California banks to 300 Lucky Stores. Wanda Jaworski's computer system is one of 300 LANs (local area networks) that already crisscross every large Travelers' office. Capobianco's networks branch from giant mainframe computers that tie hundreds of thousands of personal computer owners in an electronic community that stretches from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking the Nation | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

They never seem to stop going long enough to think about it. From autumn to spring, they crisscross the ice and the court, and the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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