Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Homer gave to each death in battle a vivid, ghastly intimacy, a perfect uniqueness that would flash-freeze the instant: no two deaths the same. Keegan has a similar eye for the memorable in war. The eye is connected to the mind of one of the century's most distinguished military historians...
...epic trip to the Porter Square Star Market. On the return trip on the T, two of us carried back a 22-pound turkey, three boxes of Stove Top stuffing, two boxes of instant mashed potatoes, a head of lettuce, four liters of soft drinks, plus tomatoes, cucumbers, a turkey baster, a pan to cook the turkey, salt, pepper and assorted herbs and spices...
...bodies of the poor? Or maybe we'll just clone for the fun of it. If you like a movie scene, you can rewind the tape, so when Junior gets all pimply and nasty, why not start over with Junior II? Sooner or later, among the in vitro class, instant replay will be considered a human right...
...says LaPierre, who also expects that the assault-gun ban will not be part of the final anticrime act. As for the Brady Bill, it includes an NRA-supported amendment that will end the waiting period after five years through the establishment of a nationwide computer system to conduct instant background checks. "It's like living in a house that NRA gave them the blueprints for," LaPierre says. It may be harder, though, for NRA to feel that way now about the houses of Congress...
...story of a man who is beloved for spendthrift indulgence of his friends, then abandoned the instant his considerable fortune is gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien...