Word: refreshment
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...YORK--Chances are, by now you've heard about the Central Park attacks during the Puerto Rican Day Parade--and probably forgotten about them too. Let me refresh your memory: Near the end of the June 11 parade, more than 50 women were sprayed with water, groped, robbed and in some cases sexually assaulted by a gang of men in a crowded Central Park in broad daylight, while police officers allegedly looked on and refused to help the victims...
...growth in long forms. Instead of subjects shifting nicely into levels of depth--here's the soundbite answer, here's a longer answer, here's the encyclopedia version--only the soundbite survives in circulation. It seems that our tolerance for information of all kinds has shrunk dramatically, demanding constant refresh and rarely holding still for the previously reductive 800-word form. (Have you really read this far in the column without skipping ahead or skimming...