Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...information superhighway keeps us sufficiently connected via UNIX; this contrived form of virtual communication is an exercise in Internet ostentatiousness...
Identity crisis only worsened two years ago when the op-Arts were removed from FM to form the separate "Arts" section. "What now?" thought the magazine editors. And thus Fifteen Minutes, sans arts section, tumbled into confusion. Who are we, where are we going? Various theories surfaced. Some editors thought that "Fifteen Minutes" should be about popular culture with kitschy visuals and copy. Others took the Warhol reference more literally and sprinkled the magazine with Campbell's soup cans. Recent magazine executives interpreted the title at face value--a quarter hour--and brought a chronological theme to the magazine...
...Television's contribution, though, may not be restricted to violent content. The saturation coverage devoted to each of the more than five high school shootings over the past 18 months may serve as some perverse form of inducement to the alienated "loners" who carry them out. After all, if there is a pattern in the motive for the attacks it is generally a sense of alienation and desire to take violent revenge for perceived -- or real -- social exclusion. In a culture that has since World War II been built primarily around the television set, the coverage devoted to high school...
They also cautioned that randomization might encourage minority students to form blocking groups with large concentrations ofpeople from their own ethnic group...
Harvard will contribute $150 million toRadcliffe's present endowment to form a $350million dowry for the new Institute. $50 millionof those funds will be used to supportundergraduate financial aid for both men andwomen...