Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traits and start actually inserting the genes they want--perhaps even genes that have been crafted in a lab. Before the new millennium is many years old, parents may be going to fertility clinics and picking from a list of options the way car buyers order air conditioning and chrome-alloy wheels. "It's the ultimate shopping experience: designing your baby," says biotechnology critic Jeremy Rifkin, who is appalled by the prospect. "In a society used to cosmetic surgery and psychopharmacology, this is not a big step...
...wicker basket at the entrance brims with crunchy New England apples, and underneath the starched napkins at each place setting are wicker plate-covers. Tables and chairs manage the homey feel of wood with the smooth veneer of an upscale dining venue. The kitchen is open, and a sleek chrome wrap-around bar flanks a series of small tables at which appetizers can be ordered during busy hours. Harvest boasts track lighting with a bit of a difference: upsidedown T bars emerge from the ceiling to subtly cast shadows off of the warm walls. The patio looks like the perfect...
...potions for everything from wrinkles and baldness to the prevention of strokes and heart attacks. More boomer selfishness? Maybe not. If science insists on getting more mileage out of the engine and prolonging our lives--thus allowing us to work into our 70s--what's wrong with maintaining the chrome and fenders? "We expect medicine to deliver that," says Susan Coleman, president of NCI Consulting, a New Jersey adviser to drug companies...
Tasca's entrance and bar area convey smoky romance with a strong yuppie aesthetic--chrome barstools, elegant rows of glasses suspended from the ceiling, mirrors backing the bottles of alcohol. Wrought-iron chandeliers, hanging wine-racks, ceramic plates, and brass skillets liven the dining room. The cozy booths--far more intimate than the tables in the middle of the room--are covered with brocades of little sailboats and flowers. Sailboats seem to be a prominent decor theme at Tasca, perhaps a reference to the excellent seafood selection. A ubiquitous European-atmosphere-engendering Gypsy Kings album plays in the background...
Nonetheless, Gattaca, despite a certain emotional shallowness, does hit a nerve with its glass-and-chrome model of a society obsessed with the potential for human perfection. Perhaps its best spokesperson is the courteous, kindly-looking genetic "consultant" who, early on, advises Vincent's parents on the birth of their second child. After sketching some of the wonderful and more reasonable tweaking possibilities that lie before them--prevention of genetic defects, diseases, bad eyesight, predisposition to obesity--he finally concludes, in the most quietly persuasive tones in the world, "[The child] is still you...It's just the best...