Word: grander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those instructions, one could induce the machine to perform the functions of all such machines. In other words, depending on the tape it scanned, the same machine could calculate numbers or play chess or do anything else of a comparable nature. Hence his device acquired a new and even grander name: the Universal Turing Machine...
...life began is a grander question that will occupy most of the next century. The first task is to reconstruct the history of evolution over the past 4 billion years. Modern gene technology can use the DNA in every living thing as a vast repository of historical information. Even dna will not point all the way back to the beginning of life, but it will provide clues to the self-replicating entities first assembled from simple chemicals on the primeval earth. The century ahead will see the first laboratory proof that self-replicating systems can form from ordinary chemicals. Determining...
...political scene has, quite obviously, been merely a by-product of her marriage. And, she has hadn't even used that happy coincidence to particularly impressive effect. Granted, she has championed a few pet causes, but certainly with no greater success than previous First Ladies and certainly with much grander failure. It seems that her only accomplishment of note has been her ability to endure Bill's chronic infidelity. Why is this praiseworthy...
...Tamagotchi: it doesn't die. Instead, the Furby "learns" to speak English, and it can teach a child Furbish, concocted by Hampton from Japanese, Thai, Hebrew and Mandarin Chinese. (Lesson One: "kah a-tay" means "I'm hungry.") Hampton sees his Furbies as the Adams and Eves of a grander world of interactive electronics. All for about...
Edith Wharton's well known novella, Ethan Frome--a tale of love, forbidden passion and its tragic consequences--lends itself particularly well to a genre whose main intention is to represent and express human feelings on a grander scale. And that genre is none other than opera. Opera vows to unite music and poetry so as to engage the audience in feeling as much empathy, compassion and even terror as possible...