Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years ago I watched as my grandmother slowly died, bit by bit, organ by organ. For the last six months of her life she was completely bed-ridden and could not speak except for incoherent murmurings which were too painful to listen to. Had she been in any condition to express her thoughts, I fear that she would have definitely asked to be put out of her suffering--"death with dignity" is how proponents of voluntary euthanasia would perhaps have advocated her case. At that time, I would have empathized with those who advocate surgeon-assisted suicide. Even today...
...message other churches ignore at their peril. The faithful, according to a recent study by Barna Research in Glendale, California, are moving online every bit as fast as the rest of the world. After interviewing hundreds of wired Christians, Barna concluded that churches that don't establish a presence in cyberspace will start to seem badly out of touch with their parishioners. "The failure to do so," according to the study, "sends an important signal about the church's ability to advise people in an era of technological growth...
...fight over? (Especially given another common theme on these Websites: an explicit aversion to dogma, rooted in the Internet's famously antiauthoritarian culture.) Pantheist proselytizer Harrison says he is heartened, not threatened, by movements ranging from paganism to Native American spiritualism. Since Pantheism holds that God is in every bit of the universe, all forms of reverence for nature are roughly consistent with...
...prime suspect is alternative rock, a genre that fueled a good deal of the industry's growth at the beginning of this decade but now, as rock's dominant genre, is sounding a bit cranky and old as it turns up in car commercials, movie sound tracks and award shows--not a good thing for a form supposedly powered by energy and youth and anger. The music started out as an antidote to the processed pop of the '80s; instead of sex and spandex, alternative rock was supposed to be about passion and honesty, about taking the focus off performers...
...does a tough score proud. Lacking the vocal vigor of Elaine Paige's West End Evita, Madonna plays Evita with a poignant weariness, as if death has shrouded her from infancy. And dressed in sumptuous gowns or feeling life seep away, she has more than just a little bit of star quality. Just before Eva's death, she sings the film's one new tune, which sounds eerily like an act of faith: You Must Love Me. But love or hate Madonna-Eva, she is a magnet for all eyes. You must watch her. And to find the soul...