Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ship arrives in Naples, the reader is treated to the woman's thoughts: "Every voyage must be like this, she thought, suffering for the first time in her life the sharp pain of being a foreigner, while she leaned over the railing and contemplated the vestiges of so many extinct worlds in the depths of the water...
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Long considered indispensable indicators of a community's sophistication, orchestras are in danger of becoming cultural dinosaurs. Some are already extinct: within the past decade, major ensembles have collapsed in cities as disparate as Oakland, California; New Orleans; Denver and Birmingham, Alabama. Endowments have been tapped and seasons shortened; crowd-pleasing pops concerts have been added and community-outreach programs established. And yet the slide continues. Gathering last month in New York City for their gloomiest convention in years, the members of the American Symphony Orchestra League heard a stark message: Change...
...hooray for Hollywood, do-gooders might cheer. Whether from conviction or calculation, the town is born-again nice. Nearly extinct this summer are the killer thrillers, with their stark violence, sleazy sex, punk vocabulary -- and R ratings. Taking their place is the children's film, in which kids and grownups take reassuring life lessons. At heart these PG movies are After School Specials for the kids, and after-work seminars for dads. It's Father's Day all summer, and the Kidding of America all year long...
...antelope discovered in a Vietnamese forest last year belong to a new species. It's the first new species in the family that includes cows, deer and antelope to be found in at least half a century. The bones were reasonably fresh, implying that the creature is not extinct -- although no Westerner has yet seen one alive...