Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pasquale rightfully cites the MaBell breakup of the 80's as a significant moment in the history of telecommunications, sparking the creation of new telephone companies. But what he fails to mention is that the reason Ma Bell was broken up was that this long-distance provider was just too good for its own good. Service was excellent, rates were competitively low. Ma Bell could easily attract new customers by this attractive mix of low rates and outstanding service. The anti-trust laws couldn't allow a company to use its great profit margin to keep up this excellent service...
...explanation. Is the creation of thousands of new jobs as the market expands economically inefficient? Is the convenience of having to pay one bill to one provider of many services, instead of many bills to many providers of single services, economically inefficient? Is the creation of a second Ma Bell, who could once again give us the rates and service the consumers want, economically inefficient? No! Mr. Pasquale seems to equate efficiency with fairness. He finds the advantage that the large corporations have with respect to adapting to new technology unfair. His concern for the disadvantaged, smaller provider is unfounded...
Berkley's overwrought performance as Nomi is the final insult. The former "Saved By The Bell" actress makes you long for the wit and subtlety of Sharon Stone's crotch-flashing in "Basic Instinct." Berkley's version of the cliched femme fatale is all pants and snarls, without a hint of irony. As for the male characters, they remain locked in even more unsavory cliches: pockmarked pimp, hustler-with-a-heart-of-gold...
...emotions of the players inside Ito's courtroom were only slightly less inflamed. Although disappointed that Ito would allow the jury to sample just two morsels from the Fuhrman tapes, the defense roared back with a potent parade of witnesses. Kathleen Bell, who claims she met Fuhrman at a Marine recruiting station in the mid-1980s, testified that he said, "If I had my way, all the niggers would be gathered together and burned." Natalie Singer, who met Fuhrman and his partner in a hospital emergency room, said he told her, "The only good nigger is a dead nigger." Roderic...
...enjoy its charm, its faux-naif artifice, its overwhelming campiness and its evocation of a period in the history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News-new woman, new paganism, new verse, the New Negro and the New Republic...