Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, the Levi Strauss company announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees. Normally, upon hearing such news, we shrug our shoulders and feel at most a moment of fleeting pity. But only a moment. After all, those workers must be half a world away, working in a exotic...
Smith is as meticulous with photography as his Renaissance predecessors were with painting: In the age of computer enhancement and image manipulation, he still does everything by hand. As a result, no photograph can be exactly reproduced--a uniqueness that lends a certain poetic beauty to each work. Every image...
Within 92 seconds of Reasoner's goal, it was 2-2. Taylor's touch left him for two fleeting moments, but first Dan LaCouture and then Brendan Walsh took advantage of sloppy B.C. defending to find separate paths to the back of Taylor's net.
Elsewhere in television the question was raised as to whether linear structure itself mattered. A much sought-after consultant, Douglas Rushkoff, advised television executives that the programming of the future would consist of "predeconstructed" shows like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own...
In the morning they strap the baby into the high chair with a handful of Cheerios on the tray, then stay alert for the sound of his choking while they take a two-minute shower. They consider a week at their in-laws' a vacation and joke that they live...