Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those machines will probably respond to commands that are spoken or scribbled as well as typed. Families will gather around TV sets with big, high-definition screens and a large menu of interactive options. After a few decades, those familiar forms will blend together and begin to lose their distinct identities. TVs, vcrs, CD players, computers, telephones, video games, newspapers and mail-order catalogs will merge to create new products and services that can only be dimly imagined today...
...20th century, particularly in its first five decades, impressively reflected and helped shape the sensibilities of an age that saw itself as distinct, cut off from its past. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins," wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922), the poem that most typifies its age. A similar attitude prevailed among a number of revolutionary artists: Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Joyce in literature, Balanchine in ballet and Mies Van Der Rohe in architecture. Each of these men mastered the techniques of his trade and then saw fit to wrench old forms into previously...
...imagine: Under pressure from female students, the university orders the Hasty Pudding Club to go co-ad. "No more guys in tights? You're losing a distinct subculture here," protests the club president. But full integration is deemed more important...
...mastery of this latter skill that makes his technique so memorable and distinct. The way he can glide over the keyboard almost levitating the sound is in sharp contrast to the way that he extracts vital energy out of pieces by Mussorgsky. Dynamism and contrast. These two words summarize the appearance (though not the nature) of his technique...
...mastery of this latter skill that makes his technique so memorable and distinct. The way he can glide over the keyboard almost levitating the sound is in sharp contrast to the way that he extracts vital energy out of pieces by Mussorgsky. Dynamism and contrast. These two words summarize the appearance (though not the nature) of his technique...