Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child's being black in America in 1997 is a mere coincidence or a grave mistake for which no one but the three boys who beat him are guilty. The disease of racism is growing and if left untreated, it will kill us all. Racism is not an amorphous idea to be decried in whispers like the latest scandal. It is not the product of a fearful child's imagination. It is real. It is here. It is now. And it must be cured...
When Folkman proposed the idea that tumor growth depends on a close presence of blood vessels in 1971, few medical experts took him seriously. Now, Folkman's research is on the forefront of establishing effective anti-cancer drugs...
...ourselves, watching the tawdrily dressed, flaky and obsequious woman on his arm (and unable, by definition, to see what he sees in her--and with her--when alone)? And one man's faith is no less impossible for a nonbeliever to fathom: in recent days, millions were celebrating the idea that a man actually rose from the dead, while another doubtless felt that he was committing a holy act that would gain him a place in heaven when he strapped a bomb to his body and entered a Tel Aviv restaurant. The leap of faith...
...from the dance floor," Vasquez says. "Now I'm hoping she'll perform for gay-pride week as well." The video was made by Christopher Ciccone, still most famous for being Madonna's brother but slowly making a name in the dance-video business as well. The idea of juxtaposing Dolly's bubbly singing and the rhythm-heavy grooves of the nocturnal crowd belongs to Kyle Utley, president of Flip-It Records, and Parton's just one of the artists he has in his sights. Also on his hit list: a funked-up remix of Rickie Lee Jones' Living...
...Ford, if not Wills, shrewdly sensed, the imposing physical presence and the cranky large-heartedness Wayne conveyed onscreen gave good dramatic weight to this sense of obligation. But by 1979, when he died, most of us no longer found that idea or the ideal of the frontier very useful. Our culture had ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of the simple moralities that Wayne embodied--moralities that even liberals, deploring his reactionary politics, found they missed. Wayne's legend, his apparent immortality, the sources of which keep eluding Wills, derive from that curiously haunting sense...