Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When one has the mandate of the majority, one has might to enforce one's will over minorities' rights," Hrnicek said. "I think Harvard's administration is an excellent personification of this phenomenon...
...Britain Trainspotting has been an improbable multimedia smash. Irvine Welsh's novel, published in 1993, is the Brit-lit phenomenon of the decade. Told in what Welsh calls "a mixture of phonetics and street language" and sold in music stores to the postliterate generation, it spawned T shirts, posters and a stage adaptation that has been produced in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco. The film, with its attendant top-of-the-pops CD and published screenplay, quickly became Britain's second-biggest-ever homemade box-office winner (after Four Weddings and a Funeral, to which it acts as a bitter...
...practicing physician and Buddhist, I find Chopra's metaphors to be flowery, vague and frothy. We have witnessed the phenomenon of Indian gurus many times before. It is just another scheme to tap into the thirst for spiritual values felt by the American middle and upper classes. It will be interesting to see how long Chopra and his disciples last. HUNG T. VU Fremont, California...
...phenomenon is here to stay, for a while. Hollywood is launching more than a dozen science-fiction movies within the next year or so. Besides Mars Attacks! (a gleefully nihilistic vaudeville that promises to play Dr. Strangelove to ID4's relatively docudramatic Fail-Safe) and the inevitable sequels and remakes of Alien, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lost in Space, you'll see big-budget versions of thoughtful sci-fi novels: Carl Sagan's Contact (directed by Robert Zemeckis), Michael Crichton's Sphere (Barry Levinson) and Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven...
...Power of Beauty is a sprawling work, simultaneously a personal journey and a psychosocial examination of an accelerating phenomenon. Unlike Naomi Wolf, who in her 1992 book, The Beauty Myth, portrayed the elevation of beauty as manipulative and ultimately sadistic, Friday reaches older, muddier and much more happily self-satisfied conclusions. In the end, she isn't angry at the power of beauty, and she seems to have come to terms with her own. After all, it certainly is a positive wish that every woman, from stooping adolescent to middle-aged overachiever, have a chance to float in a foam...