Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about it. The word from scientists is that whoever said this was wrong. All of us, as we go about the mundane business of existence, are helping change the weather and every other aspect of life on this fair planet: Los Angelenos whipping their sunny basin into a brown blur on the way to work every morning; South Americans burning and cutting their way through the rain forest in search of a better life; a billion Chinese, their smokestacks belching black coal smoke, marching toward the 21st century and a rendezvous with modernization...
...instead of answering these questions, it seems Harvard is trying to blur the details of its involvement with SAS. Grant the University's case that shared financial data prevents "bidding wars" for top students, and grant that SAS provides a necessary service to schools...
...Everything this whole week is kind of a blur," says Husam Ansari, sitting on a Matthews Hall window seat, which has already become a favorite seat. "I remember conversations, but I can't remember who they were with. There have been too many...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...
...because it presents a family turned inside out by Calvin's imagination. The symbol of that inversion is Hobbes, a stuffed tiger who comes to life for Calvin. It is a device as old as "The Nutcracker," and it is a powerful way to blur the lines between reality and cartoon reality and cartoon imagination...