Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chalmers remarks, "It seems God could have created the world physically exactly like this one, atom for atom, but with no consciousness at all. And it would have worked just as well. But our universe isn't like that. Our universe has consciousness." For some reason, God chose "to do more work" in order "to put consciousness...
...crimes against children are uniquely satanic. The 20th century has also learned to recognize evil in the violent eruptions of nonentities: an absolutely insignificant man bursts out of the rented room into sudden, violent, gaudy, world prominence. Tiny cause, titanic effect--this is the social equivalent of splitting the atom. When Nonentity massacres Innocence, an especially horrible fission occurs...
...past four years, it has almost doubled its budget for responding to nuclear emergencies, now at $70 million annually. The core of the effort is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team--NEST. These are the people America will call on if and when someone claims to have hidden an atom bomb in the Mall of America...
...steel in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, grippingly conveys the horrors of war in the nuclear age. Smith's composition, covered entirely with a cadmium red paint that is both mundane and menacing, forcefully aggregates scraps of metal and designed objects into a figure that evokes both the atom and our fear of its power. A core of barbs and chain links lies at the center of the work, surrounded by two askew rectangles of jagged metal forms. Recalling Escher's surreal staircase designs, Smith's work depicts technology as both embedded in all our forms of life...
...Reed declaims, but does not convey, the pathos of a woman who bleakly sees through the egotism of much male solicitude. Hopper makes a sweet Picasso: you can believe he painted harlequins but not minotaurs. Most satisfying is Nelson as Einstein; a diminutive figure, he expresses something of an atom's compacted, ferocious potential energy...