Word: begotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Begotten by the electronics revolution, the thoroughly modern media room comprises an eye-and ear-boggling assemblage of spectacle and sound. According to industry executives, costly home entertainment equipment is among the hottest merchandise around. Scores of specialty shops with names like Video Concepts and Videomart have sprung up to supply sophisticated gadgetry to home-media junkies. Annual stereo and video sales across the country are running at about $2 billion. Says Walter Fisher, Zenith Radio Corp. marketing executive vice president: "The revolution in entertainment electronics has hit not only the high-technology stores but the American lifestyle as well...
...producers of Woman of the Year have done all they can to make their show a saleable commodity--and reportedly spend as much as $2 million in the process. A bankable "name," a highly-wrought production and proven backstage performers should have begotten a success. Yet for all its trimmings, Woman of the Year is empty inside, a great big birthday present tied up with a shiny bow, holding nothing but more and more boxes...
...audience. In this age where we crave "cheap" thrills people will mindlessly spend $25 a seat for a package expertly stuffed with surprises, shocks, and the star appeal of Ms. Lansbury. Using art's name, Messrs. Sondheim and Prince lamentably succumbed to this trend, producing an illconceived, ill-begotten extravaganza. Their estimable talents should not be wasted in this manner...
...notable Christologist, Schillebeeckx is a leader in the doctrinal reinterpretation of Christ, in part because he wants to make the Saviour more accessible to modern man. But in doing so, he avoids the words of the Nicene Creed about Jesus being "eternally begotten of the Father . . . true God from true God . . . one in Being with the Father...