Word: grander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Microsoft became successful, Gates built a four-house vacation compound dubbed Gateaway for his family. There his parents would help him replicate his summer activities on a grander scale for dozens of friends and co-workers in what became known as the Microgames. "There were always a couple of mental games as well as performances and regular games," says Bill Sr. as he flips through a scrapbook. These were no ordinary picnics: one digital version of charades, for example, had teams competing to send numerical messages using smoke-signal machines, in which the winners devised their...
...Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, written by Lewis Colick, purrs along like a TV movie with a grander budget. And like those fact-based disease-of-the-week dramas (the virus here is racism), this one is defeated by its lack of suspense. The case's outcome isn't the only thing that's predictable; so are the prejudices and motives of nearly every character...
Cynics may reflect: there is no forgiveness for the marvel who writes a brilliant, successful novel, one of those rare, resonant tales that every literate soul burns to read. On pain of universal outrage and derision, the marvel's next book and all succeeding ones must be even grander than the first, and, while precisely the same, also boldly and completely different. Reviewers, who are in charge of outrage and derision--as well as words like resonant--will pout like rejected lovers at anything short of incandescence...
...election reporters and pundits are obsessed with the minutiae of the campaign: consultants, fund raising, TV spots, sound bites. The premise is that these quotidian details are crucial to a highly uncertain outcome. Immediately after the outcome is known, however, journalists start treating themselves and their customers to grander themes: the voters' message, the sweep of history and so on. The premise is that these larger forces explain what happened...
...discovery may turn out to have repercussions on a far grander scale. Subsequent experiments with superfluid helium-3 have lent support to the theory that the creation of hypothetical structures called cosmic strings a fraction of a second after the Big Bang led eventually to the formation of the galaxies...