Word: continuum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continuum. That is, as more multimedia titles come out, as more information is online, as we make these things easier to use, we start to draw in more and more people. Now, once you get in for one application, the hurdle to learn a second one is fairly low. My dad wanted to do his taxes automatically. Then I got him doing word processing and now electronic mail because everybody in our family is connected...
...movie that started an hour ago. The ragged threads go back to the beginning, the violent underweave of the story. Visit 1886, say, during the birth of American organized labor: Chicago, Haymarket Square, riots, a bomb, seven cops dead. There is such a thing as a continuum of small apocalypses, a kind of tradition...
...years ago for the literary long haul. Whatever momentary noise he made as the Tasmanian devil of American letters (when he would go dervishing through the culture, talking tough, chewing the furniture), his 27 books have drawn a permanent and distinctive trajectory. His obsessions usually lead back into the continuum of the 1950s and '60s, into the universe of the cold war, of media metastasis and dangerous fame, of glamorous, conspiratorial violence, of the garish existential dreads and lusts (to use the old hyperthyroid Mailer vocabulary) that it has been his gift to conjure...
...never fear waking and annoying him. He'll speak to me with love, truth and most of all, constancy. 24-7. In the tumult and uncertainly of my first year at Harvard, Menu Man is my rock. A source of unerring wisdom. The continuum of His tradition reassures me that the housing lottery and concentration decisions are transitory. Boyfriends, come and go, but Menu Man is for always. (He is the first person I call after returning to Harvard from breaks and intersession...
...draw a clean and easy dichotomybetween who we are today and who we were in thepast," Lat said. "I'm no physics major but Ibelieve that time is a continuum...