Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been the culprit all along. It had been wholly unnecessary for TPC to give me a new computer . And my original machine's ' three weeks at Tech Services had been a total waste of time: they completely rebuilt it but never thought to test it without the Farallon "Ether Mac" card. Two different copies of this card have proven incompatible with my two Performas, a computer model for which it is designated...
Living on different continents, Arendt and McCarthy missed each other's company. Their loss is our gain. Had McCarthy stayed in New York, where Arendt remained until her death in 1975, the irreplaceable contents of this book would probably have vanished into the telephonic ether or gone up in the cigarette smoke of long lunches...
...shape his work really is. Cunningham says he created Signals after observing groupings of chairs in a Paris park: "Sometimes full, sometimes not, people come and go and converse -- only, this time, they dance." A charming dance -- one that might be set in Paris or somewhere in the enchanted ether...
Letting Tonya skate will send a loud and clear message that crime doesn't pay. If Harding loses, her victim is transported to the ether of celebrity as a plucky survivor of a vicious assault who goes on to bring back the gold for her country. In fact, human nature favors Kerrigan: Olympic judges, like Supreme Court Justices, read the election returns, and Kerrigan, the goddess of good, already enjoys a significant edge over Harding, the consort of thugs. On the other hand, if Kerrigan falls and Harding triple-Axels her way to victory, then what crueler punishment could...
...late as the sixth century A.D., in a mosaic in Ravenna depicting the Last Judgment, the devil was still portrayed as a haloed, winged being, standing at the left hand of Christ. Satan is dressed in blue, not red, robes. (Red was the color of the upper ether, closest to God, from which Satan was expelled; blue, the color of the closest heaven humankind could see.) By the Middle Ages, however, Satan had become a beast. His horns and hooves come from his commingling with beliefs banished by a victorious Christianity. The devil's appurtenances derive from the great Greek...