Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passengers. (The largest 747 carries as many as 568 people.) Working with some 20 airlines, Airbus is spending $9 billion to develop a plane it calls the A3XX and promises to roll out the monster by 2004. Boeing says its own "medium-large" 767s and 777s can easily connect cities such as Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frankfurt, Germany, eliminating the need for superjumbo jets to gather passengers from around the country at hub airports like New York City's J.F.K...
...Shakespeare's insight into human nature cuts like a straight razor," says Eric Bogosian, one of the well-known playwrights commissioned to write sketches for Love's Fire. To be sure, the great plays still connect with us because they distill and dramatize great emotions, the kind that don't date. The best new productions of Shakespeare succeed by shocking us into thinking we're seeing something new--while convincing us, in the end, that...
...subtle and evocative opening to E.M. Forster's Victorian romance, Howard's End, the words "only connect" take on a profound meaning in 28-year-old Michael Byers' debut collection of evocative short stories about unfulfilled longings and lives around the fog-shrouded Seattle shore. A Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University, Byers himself transmutes into the characters of his creation by an impressive flex of his literary muscles...
...Only connect.... These narratives plead their cause to the human ear, asking it to remind the soul of its need to connect. Metaphorical entities themselves, the stories are also intertwined in their single-threaded loneliness, voicing the message that Byers obviously wants to give...
...Only connect... And how far as Michael Byers willing to go in order to connect? Certainly a long way. As an effective fiction writer, he steps out of his author's shell to don the simple attire of his characters, living each narrative convincingly enough for us to believe that Andie, Martin, Rosie, Alvin, Janine and Louise are all inside us, desperately longing for just an opportunity to connect...