Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior second baseman Peter Woodfork remembered the dictum that you take outside junk the other way and punched a line-drive single into right...
This isn't directed only to seniors. The rut of achievement is debilitating here as well. We are too young to already be trapped in lives that leave us unfulfilled and exhausted. At the risk of triteness, a Thoreauvian dictum needs to be trotted out: Live deliberately. If you're not enjoying yourself now, you certainly won't be as a third-year medical student. Take time off if you need a reminder that there's life outside the Ivy League; it was one of the best things both of us did. While you're here...
...this story online in China; Time Warner's Pathfinder site is on the list), a rising generation of Western-educated officials is pressing home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, as prices fall by half) to produce something you might call President Jiang Zemin's Injunction: Plug in, turn on, cash out. "The Chinese...
...extreme close-up is on Simpson, who, along with his partner, the more stable Jerry Bruckheimer, produced the hits Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and Crimson Tide before his 1996 death from an overdose. Aside from his obvious pop-culture smarts, Simpson's main contribution to cinema was his dictum that a blockbuster must have an easily described plot with three acts: explosive incident, impending crisis, triumphant resolution. His own story, however, was far more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson's life to explore Hollywood...
...considerable influence of Willem de Kooning bore on it. De Kooning, Diebenkorn felt, "had it all, could outpaint anybody, at least until the mid-'60s, when he began to lose it." But Diebenkorn's friendship with the Bay Area painter David Park, who bravely refused to accept the reigning dictum in the American avant-garde that radicalism had to mean abstraction, pointed him still closer toward the figurative...