Word: deale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel loses a great deal of its magic and most of its charm when the focus moves to America. Rushdie's America is cold and empty, with a few discotheques and famous faces but lacking energy and life. The essence of America seems to slip through Rushdie's fingers, and a rich history of pop culture is reduced to a handful of amusing cameos. Narrator Rai becomes myopic in this foreign environment, keeping Vina and Ormus at a distance from the reader and failing to portray them as more than celebrated anomalies...
...Owning and cultivating a lawn became a fabulous new way for the social elite to compete in the conspicuous consumption of leisure. A great deal of money was required to buy the materials, hire a designer and planters, and have either gardeners or animals shave it down to its optimum length. When the upper echelons of colonial society returned from their European travels with news of the latest in fashion, food, and home decor, they brought the lawn with them--it came from Old to New England with all its attendant symbolism...
...This is so open-ended that it allows NATO to say it's brought the Russians on board behind its demands, while the Russians can say they've won enough concessions from NATO to cut a deal acceptable to Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The key sticking point to a peace deal -- as at the Rambouillet talks in February -- has been the scope and nature of an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and Thursday's accord in Bonn is vague enough on that issue to be sold to both sides. Fudging the contentious issues, of course, allows...
...monopolistic history doesn't ease many minds, nor does its new $5 billion deal with perhaps the next monopoly to get trustbusted, Microsoft, about extending Windows' current hegemony into all those set-top boxes. AT&T isn't promising exclusivity -- it says it'll honor TCI's old deal with Sun for some Java-run boxes, and promised Microsoft only a few "showcase cities" -- but Mr. Gates clearly has his foot in the door, and Netscape will tell you what generally happens after that. Will AT&T go under the government's knife again? It's early yet, but cable...
Peace in Kosovo will be all things to all people -- or, more specifically, the deal designed to end hostilities will allow all sides to claim victory. That much was clear from the peace plan agreed to by leading NATO countries and Russia at a summit of foreign ministers in Germany on Thursday. The agreement provides for an end to violence and repression in Kosovo; the withdrawal of Serb security forces; the deployment of ill-defined "international civil and security presences" under mandate from the United Nations; the safe return of refugees under the auspices of a U.N. interim administration...