Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...will be nervous until they find their identity, but there is still another reason to be worried. Consider this: We're on the home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...
...interest groups galore. Business schools and many subfields within economics were political (and intellectual, too) in inspiration--the push coming from government, industry and interest groups. Regional studies (Russian, East Asian, Middle East, African, Latin American) were political (and intellectual, too) in inspiration. And so on and so forth...I think the political argument as used by NAS backers is phony...
...sort of message put forth by "Jody" is dangerous, for it reinforces the notion that larger bodies are shameful and deserve ridicule. We suspect that more people are personally wounded by the strip than are amused...
...truth is that his figures and animals never benefited from their awkwardness. His horses are spindly, half-seen nags, and the dryads, babies and damsels in his decorative paintings are boneless stereotypes. Ryder's attempts at decoration -- mirror frames, screens and so forth -- look naive and gaumless compared with the more polished work of Tiffany or John La Farge. Ryder was not sophisticated enough to rival them, while as a Realist he was stumped by a lack of curiosity about the actual, resistant world. You know at once that Ryder spent no time looking at a body and analyzing...
AFTER THE WARMING (PBS, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. on most stations). Environmental documentaries continue to pour forth like acid rain. This one is sparked by a lucid, witty host, James Burke (Connections), who "looks back" from the year 2050 to see what disasters global warming has wrought...