Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Here's an idea: give the withdrawn Grammy to Arsenio Hall. He started all this. "We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall," said Rob Pilatus, 25, at a rowdy press conference in Los Angeles last week. Pilatus, one half of Milli Vanilli, was struggling to explain how the duo's yearnings for legitimacy had provoked their German record producer, Frank Farian, into confirming what had long been show-biz rumor: that Pilatus and Fab Morvan, 25, were in fact techno-puppets, fronts for a studio-manufactured sound that sold 10 million copies of the album Girl...
...like Soviet leaders before him, a master of doublethink. Sheehy eventually turns this standard Orwellian idea into what she calls her own "shattering insight . . . There is no bottom line to the Soviet socialist ideal -- it's a snake pit of hypocrisy...
...that the movement is young, and the meaning of environmentalism is changing in subtle and profound ways. Not so long ago, "old thinking" had the environment tucked away in parks and rural areas, an amenity for the relatively affluent to appreciate on weekends. Implicit in this attitude was the idea that ecology was irrelevant to businessmen and policymakers concerned with the real issues of the day and that mankind could somehow get along without focusing on the environment...
...attractively wry style, but his discussions of biochemistry and other abstruse fields can run ahead of general readers, who might prefer to turn to one of the more popular books about the theory. Among the most balanced and accessible is Lawrence Joseph's Gaia, the Growth of an Idea (St. Martin's Press; $19.95). Joseph goes to great lengths to characterize the importance of Gaia, but where necessary he holds Lovelock to account. Lovelock was the first scientist to propose that chemical aerosols called CFCs might pose a threat to the ozone layer, but his faith in the restorative powers...
...part resolution: the first part would set a deadline for Iraq to comply with previous U.N. demands that it get out of Kuwait; the second would authorize member nations to use "any means necessary" to compel compliance if the deadline is not met. When Bush broached the idea of such a resolution to him, French President Mitterrand declared, "I said yes." But Mitterrand added that there would and should be no "automatisme" about the resolution. The apparent meaning: rather than starting to bomb without further ado once the deadline passed, the U.S. would be obliged to consult, presumably with...