Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loser of all is perhaps the weak brother who is made even weaker by his brother's success. At the same time, Americans want their leaders to be godlike but still connected to the soil from which they sprang; so it is psychologically useful if the President is a colossus but his brother has feet of clay...
Towering over Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hour epic about gay liberation, AIDS and the Reagan era was a wall like the facade of some government colossus, already cracked and waiting to split open. It did -- to reveal an avenging angel that was just one of the acts of theatrical and metaphysical daring in this brilliant if roughhewn jumble of politics, fantasy and farce. The full Angels debuted memorably at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starring Ron Leibman as Republican dealmaker Roy Cohn...
...ruthlessly called the shots for the entire industry after the computer became a commercial item about 40 years ago. So tight was IBM's market grip that it was practically impossible for any computer company to do business without being tied in some way to the Big Blue colossus...
...central visual image of this season's most eagerly awaited American play is a towering wall, like the facade of some Greek Revival government colossus, with two jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...
...will be a major player on the world scene. Its military power, its 20% share of the world's gross national product and its mastery of such cutting-edge fields as biotechnology, microprocessors and information technologies guarantee that. It will bestride the North American Free Trade Agreement like a colossus...