Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the world held its breath yesterday as the space station temporarily lost the use of its primary and backup oxygen generators. Mir's crew swiftly fixed the problem, but Russian ground staff went home for the night without telling the Americans about it, touching off a brief panic at NASA early this morning...
...struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting" (Milan Kundera), which is why it is necessary not to let the brief glimpse the world had of Pol Pot be the last, and why the West, America especially, ought to call for another Nuremberg. By bombing Cambodia in 1970 we destabilized the country and were largely responsible for Pol Pot's rise; we could use some memory jogging...
Though early yesterday the University refused to comment on the book, it later issued a brief statement challenging Thernstrom's account...
...company's rousing growth has meant that Lisa Marie Presley has personally made tens of millions. In 1993, when she turned 25, with cash rolling in from Graceland and some 100 well-heeled Elvis licensees, she quite wisely reappointed her mother as trustee of the estate. Besides facilitating her brief marriage to Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie's majority has freed EPE to take greater risks; thus the real estate deals and coming clubs and casinos. Even in Elvisworld, however, there is such a thing as excess. Priscilla turns up her nose at the notion that Elvis clubs might some...
Alone of the trio, Ravenhill admits to a certain amount of book learning (he holds a drama degree and has spent his albeit brief professional life working in literary offices of small theater companies, nurturing emerging young playwrights like himself) and is the only one who seems to be working consciously within a particular form. His Shopping and F______ belongs to the subgenre of so-called smack-and-sodomy plays, in which drug use is rampant and sex is graphic, brutish and usually anal. We are in Trainspotting territory here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users...