Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hawking first articulated the conundrum of cosmology, explaining that it is merely a "pseudo-science" because it has no predictive power. Based on current observations, cosmology uses equations to extrapolate back into the past...
...Damned if I can figure him out, though," Morris continues to his wife. "Is he a political genius, or a bore?" This, of course, is the central Reagan conundrum that many biographers have tried to answer. As he seeks to answer it, Morris traces the life of the future, nearly godlike President through the eyes of the fictional Morris. There is an encounter on the football field: "The square-cut youth and I briefly exchanged glances... A million miles away a factory siren wailed. His purposeful body moved on, exuding liniment. I dropped the candy wrapper I had been holding...
...missed this rivalry, and I?ve also missed chuckling derisively at Cleveland fans each time the Steelers win. Look for me to be laughing my socks off this Sunday, as Kordell dries his eyes and gets down to business, and Detmer gets distracted by the age-old conundrum: Why are the Browns? uniforms so darn ugly? Bernie will be there, but he?ll be too far away from the action to do the Browns much good, as the Steelers finish with a comfortable 10-point lead...
...conundrum of what to wear on their own heads had bedeviled the wedding's female invitees, as Sophie had asked them to remain hatless. While the Queen Mother, 98, ignored the edict, others adorned their hair with feathers...
...smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in the fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak--were the ones who really overthrew the Establishment. And then they became everything the counterculture...