Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sion is the front runner for the 20th Winter Olympics...
Sure. But environmental degradation, which is what Hertsgaard is asking readers to be worried about, is one of those vaguely irritating phrases that sink to the bottom of public discourse and stay there like sludge. The mind's response, after the 20th hearing, is a weary "Yeah, yeah." Got to get the kids off to school. Got to invest in a hog factory, build on a floodplain, send bigger boats after fewer fish. Write a check to Greenpeace. Buy Exxon Mobil. And be sure to pick up some bottled water...
...women's dress evolve from the balloon-derriere silhouette of the 19th century to the cleaner, linear look that has characterized the 20th? This show at the Met's Costume Institute makes the dazzling and utterly convincing visual argument that what facilitated the transition was the influence of Cubist painting and theory. From the tunics of Callot Soeurs to the cylindrical day dresses of Vionnet to the drop-waist skirts of Chanel in the 1920s, fashion's deflation followed the Cubist embrace of the plane. In other words, liberated from corsets, women everywhere owe a thank-you to Picasso...
...20th century is indeed the American century, but how could your list of movers and shakers have just one non-U.S. resident? The inclusion of Sony's Akio Morita almost seemed like tokenism--not that I would deny his place in history. But what about the industrialists who set about restoring the economy of Western Europe after the ravages of World War II? What about the founders of some of the conglomerates in the rest of the world? It was not only the U.S. that influenced the economy of the 20th century. PHILIP ANDREW QVIST Gauteng, South Africa...
Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing power. It's time to ring in the century of biotechnology. Just as the discovery of the electron in 1897 was a seminal event for the 20th century, the seeds for the 21st century were spawned in 1953, when James Watson blurted out to Francis Crick how four nucleic acids could pair to form the self-copying code of a DNA molecule. Now we're just a few years away from one of the most important breakthroughs of all time...