Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...seen in TV ads, network news shows, science-fiction movies and theme-park rides. A computer-generated backdrop for a Hollywood film may take more than two years to create; Lanier claims he can make whole virtual-reality "worlds" in less than two hours. "Jaron Lanier has created a wave of revulsion in the industry," says the president of one computer-graphics firm. "He's promising something that will never be delivered...
...when Air Force Sergeant John Campisi was buried in West Covina, Calif., the townspeople turned out in a relatively rare display of community. Campisi, 31, the father of four children, was killed by a truck on a dark Saudi airfield during the first wave of U.S. deployment. He was the conflict's first casualty. The dead man's mother said she received many calls from other mothers whose sons had just left for Saudi Arabia. "All of them seem to support sending our boys there," she said. "They seem to -- but with worry." West Covina's grief for Sergeant Campisi...
Eight months after Operation Just Cause sent U.S. troops into Panama to overthrow General Manuel Noriega, the government of President Guillermo Endara seemed to be on the verge of imploding. A wave of murders, muggings and robberies spread through Panama City last week, while the quibbling among Endara and his two Vice Presidents reached new levels...
...After all, this is the era of unification, not only of Germany but also of a nine- tongued, multisovereign, historically riven Europe into that remarkable new creature, the European Community. (To say nothing of the joining of the two Yemens this May.) Integrationists point to the E.C. as the wave of the future, the only hope for peace and prosperity on a planet already suffering from a surfeit of sovereignty. Self-styled realists like Margaret Thatcher, however, scoff at the notion of multinational union as rank Utopianism, a dangerous deviation from the natural human condition of group homogeneity and ethnic...
...right? Is the federation of different peoples into superpolitical structures the wave of the future? Or is the breakup of such polyglot structures as the Soviet Union into their ethnic elements the norm...