Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors and lawyers, while the "core" schools (a segment that includes most state universities) turned out more scientists and engineers, and "convenience" schools (which tend to sell education by the piece) turned out more teachers and nurses. Only name-brand schools sent a majority of graduates on to some form of further education. Name brands top Zemsky's "academic confidence" tests as well...
...This riveting image is one of a woman in disequilibrium, not as fiercely torn apart as she is in the Weeping Women of those years, but out of kilter all the same, with staring eyes, figure-eight nostrils flared as though in suppressed fright, and strange asymmetries of form around the nose and brow. Compared with it, Impressionism began to look somewhat easy and even insipid to the fast-learning Wynn, and he started to buy more modern work--Picassos especially. He also began to cast a covetous eye on American art, scooping up (among other things) a great...
...weird unconvincing displacements, in which cultural icons are endlessly but never convincingly quoted. Here is the Luxor Hotel, that huge silly pyramid with its plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under construction, is a casino in the form of the Doges Palace in Venice, complete with a small-scale version of the Campanile bearing a replica of the original's gilded angel on its vertex. Here too is Caesars Palace, looking like the architectural dream of an illiterate Mussolini; and alongside it are the Forum Shops at Caesars...
...like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Ore., felt her brain go on strike. "I just couldn't get going in the morning," she says. "I'd get depressed and gain 10 lbs. every winter and lose them again in the spring." Then she read about seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in autumn and winter, and she saw the light--literally. Every morning now she turns on a specially constructed light box for half an hour and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking it's still enjoying those long summer days...
...made this year range upwards of 1,100. "And that's only completed films," says Jeff Lipsky, an executive at Samuel Goldwyn Films. "Lord knows how many more at least start production." By Lipsky's count, maybe 150 to 170 will see the light of day with some form of distribution, however limited; of those, maybe 20 will get significant exposure and make some money. After all, there are only so many theaters, so many moviegoers, so many hours in a life...