Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cela, who won the Nobel Prize in 1989, recreates the world of a rural village around the time of the Spanish Civil War. Mazurka is a bizarre story, told in bits and pieces and filled with a confusing array of characters who are violent and lustful, pathetic and whimsical. The novel appears to be the result or transcription of several interviews with older women and men from the village, who are remembering the scandals and gossip from days past. Their stories are wandering and repetitious, but not without an ironic sense of humor--although at whose expense we cannot...
...poised to exploit all the new technology soon to transform TV: fiber optics and digital compression, which will multiply the number of channels available, and two-way capability, which will allow viewers to interact with the TV set. Home shopping, Diller promises, is just the first of a vast array of things people will be able to do over the TV of the future, from ordering programs to paying bills and calling up the morning newspaper. "It's coming, not 10 years from today but sooner. And what's going to help it along is someone who doesn't understand...
...created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments -- AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain -- have yet to yield to standard medicine. In the breach, Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults alternative healers, shelling out nearly $14 billion a year for their services. Most is ^ paid out of pocket, since such treatments are rarely covered by insurance...
...agree 100 percent with the president," Gates said. "I think that it's very important--particularly at Harvard, which has a flagship role in the intellectual community in America--to expose our students to as wide as possible an array of ideas...
Rudenstine said the department makes its funding decisions based on a "mind-boggling" array of factors, including the cost of maintaining the teams and the level of participation by gender...