Word: babel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that freedom does not always lead to the clearest statements. Today, she insists, fashion has become a Tower of Babel: "The BBC cameraman who buys his gear when on assignment in the States, and the American lady executive whose clothes were made in Italy, are in a sense imaginary citizens of Los Angeles and Rome, and may be expected to manifest some of the traits associated with these cities." Of course, some people simply do not care what their apparel says about them: ''An article may be worn because it is warm or rainproof or handy to cover...
What with the actor's Hispanic inflections, the babel of voices around him and a hot samba, Prospero sometimes seems to be presiding over a banana republic...
...speech because the law was too broad. In the process, however, seven Justices with differing views on the ordinance agreed that states and cities do have the right to prohibit strictly commercial billboards. A bewildered Justice William Rehnquist described his colleagues' disparate opinions as "a virtual Tower of Babel, from which no definitive principles can be clearly drawn...
...still another voice has been add ed to what is rapidly becoming a busi ness babel in Washington: the American Business Conference was formed to speak for medium-size growth companies...
...rush to the short-wave radio is an increasingly common sight: despite television and other forms of instant communication, much of the world still gets its news from those very short waves bounced off the ionosphere. The upper atmosphere indeed is the true Tower of Babel; far above the clouds, scores of tongues and half a dozen ideologies compete for the attention of those below. By the latest count, 34 countries broadcast in short wave, beaming out an astonishing 20,000 hours of programming each week...