Word: descents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violence, sadism and torture. The thugs, who are thugs' thugs, do not use guns. They smash and stab with clubs and knives. But they are not alone, even the milque-toast David becomes barbaric, sawing up bodies with mad concentration. David's dramatic character change signals the flatmates' descent into a predictable spiral of paranoia...
Eight members of the MIT Emergency Response Group were drinking coffee in the lobby of a building across the street when they looked out the window to catch the last few seconds of the helicopter's descent...
...stage is set, and the divine vehicle arrives--a shiny red Saab convertible. The deity's muses, those fourteen drag queens, surround the Saab like the presidential Secret Service. We await for Catwoman's descent from the heavens...
...cheer fervently. Ticker-tape in red, white and blue lands on our faces and on the faces of the fourteen Secret Service drag queens. As the band blares a triumphant rendition of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," I almost break down in tears. I am part of it: the descent to earth of the deity Michelle Pfeiffer...
...worst may be yet to come. The trend toward hyperdemocracy has happened without anyone planning it, and there is no clear reason for it to stop now. With or without a new Tofflerian constitution, there is cause to worry that the nation's inevitable immersion in cyberspace, its descent into a wired world of ultra-narrowcasting and online discourse, may render democracy more hyper and in some ways less functional. We have seen the future, and it doesn't entirely work...