Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, there are the instant accounts--the "I was there to see it all" stories, the news compilations, the inside scoops...
...eight months since the "revolutions" of Eastern Europe, publishers have flooded the market with instant account books, some better than others. The scholarly books are just beginning to appear, playing to a limited academic audience. And the "literature of 1989" has for the most part, not yet arrived...
...turned around, jogged to The Crimson, and called to get my name in the pile of responses which I imagined to be growing at that very instant...
...taken to kneecapping those whom they capture. For every child who wants no part in civil war and wants to go to America, for every child who dreams of joining the I.R.A., there is a ghetto kid who has no dreams and who lives for the present, finding the instant, brief thrill of joyriding worth the risk. It's senseless, except that these kids have become inured to risk, and joyriding is the one violent activity in Belfast where the kid is in control, steering his own danger...
...curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet $ searches. Today, if a visitor happens into a place that has been combed by these troops, he draws an instant crowd and a dozen offers to see someone "beaten by the army...