Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the man slaughtered the children in Dunblane, Scotland, and used his last shot to obliterate Exhibit A, which was his own brain, people ransacked whatever evidence remained. They looked in the man's past for telltale shreds, for that tracery of cause and effect that lets the mind begin to make peace with such events. The horror needs to be processed in words, to be identified as scientifically as possible, and thereby locked, uneasily, in the confines of explanatory language...
According to Simon Billinguess, a senior research analyst at Franklin Research, Inc., Harvard's decision may be used by PepsiCo shareholders to show that Burma is having an effect on the company's ability to strike business deals...
...social-issue conservatives, who were quick to recognize its value. In the early 1980s, when the notion that pornography caused violence against women was beginning to take hold of some feminists, anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly included in her diatribes against sex education a note of concern about the effect of pornography on a "man who is already prone to violence against women." Borrowing from anti-porn activist Catharine MacKinnon, Schlafly wrote, "Pornography really should be defined as the active subordination of women. Nearly all porn involves the use of women in subordinate, degrading poses for the sexual, exploitative...
...song over the final credits, agrees with its relevance. The image of two men slowly dancing together, from an early experimental film by Thomas Edison, seems strange and haunting at the beginning of "The Celluloid Closet" but even more so at the end, where it is used to great effect, bookending the progress shown in the film, in which such images began as innocuous and then became an object of prurient curiosity and hatred, finally, as the directors hint, a symbol of possibility and hope...
...individual moments and performances delight, Simonson's Hamlet accomplishes little of the play's potential to purge human emotion and cleanse the spirit. The effort is admirable and is at many points entertaining, but the end result does little to rouse the audience's imagination to the full effect of this great tragedy...