Word: monolithism
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Assuming the investigation produces no shocking revelations that somehow implicate the P.R.I. in Colosio's death, Zedillo is a strong front runner for the August ballot. His two main rivals have yet to gather steam and his party, though not the monolith it used to be, is still dominant. And, of course, he wears the glowing mantle of the martyred Colosio...
...very initials made people quail. The Soviet Union's Committee for State Security -- the KGB -- was not just an intelligence agency: it was a terrifying, repressive secret-police monolith that controlled the lives of ordinary Soviet citizens and most of the country's leaders, and fought in the trenches of the cold war as well. When the U.S.S.R. broke up in late 1991, so did the KGB, though some say the vast organization has simply metastasized. As Secretary of State Warren Christopher noted last week, Moscow's intelligence service "may have changed its name, but it has probably not changed...
...game is BattleTech, a 10-minute interactive video extravaganza that plunks you down on a barren, monolith-strewn spacescape to neutralize a platoon of stealthy robots: your opponents. The process is called virtual reality. And Virtual World Entertainment, which besides the Walnut Creek showroom has retail outlets in Chicago, Tokyo and Yokohama (with a San Diego branch due in November), is just part of this burgeoning blend of art, science and razzle-dazz...
...BARELY NEEDED to define the term when I spoke with Geary, Castelein and others. No monolith, identity politics encompasses a range of goals and individual controversies, but the class of '93 has inhabited a Harvard convulsive enough over race, gender and sexuality that its members can recognize the fits of this type of controversy from a mile away...
...film art, Qiu Ju is no match for the wondrous Red Lantern. But as a rare glimpse into the last communist monolith, it has the fascination of an individual's -- and a People's -- tragedy...