Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many decades ago, most newspapers and magazines and packages and signs looked the way they looked more or less serendipitously. They were the result of a proprietor's quirky, untutored taste, or a printer's feeling that Garamond was a classy typeface, or a general notion that things had always been done that way. Today practically everything is designed. Record-album covers and annual reports and dog-food labels are self-consciously wrought and overwrought, fussed with endlessly to get the connotations just right. This very page, with its six typefaces in ten sizes and thin horizontal and vertical rules...
...conveying the free-fall sensation of fear and the surrealism of combat. Sometimes he succumbs to stagy symbolism, such as a scene of a literal burying of a hatchet. But when one character defines death as "like being inside a book that nobody's reading," O'Brien's notion of story-truth goes off like a successful trip-flare, and we suddenly see why he had to become a writer...
...people." But for sophisticates acquainted with sociology and other disciplines, says McBrien, "sin is now seen as something systemic, institutional and structural, as well as personal." Laments William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist: "The devil has been soft-pedaled and de- emphasized by the church." Absent the notion of a personal devil, of course, exorcism becomes an obsolete, in fact meaningless, exercise...
...that case illustrates, the practice of Satanism seems to be widespread in the U.S., even as the notion of Satan loses currency in the seminaries. Father Richard Rento of Clifton, N.J., who frequently speaks about Satanism among the young, first became involved when a 15-year-old student attempted suicide, saying he wanted to meet Satan. Explains the priest: "It has become my work to inform parents and children that Satanism is not a lark. It often means tragedy and death for the child and for others." In January 1988 a fixation upon Satan played a part...
...notion of commercials in the classroom raised a furor when it was introduced last year. It also inspired a shrewd countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many...