Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail isn't the first innovation to shrink the world. The fax machine has expanded the potential for instant global communication. The fax, however, is used primarily for business, while e-mail is the basis of many casual relationships...
...AIDS pendulum took another big swing last week, thanks to a claim by biologist Ara Hovanessian of France's Pasteur Institute that his research team had made a major advance in understanding how the AIDS virus infects a healthy cell. The news created an instant stir, since the prestigious Paris-based institute is where HIV was first identified. Even before Hovanessian had a chance to present his findings to a Pasteur-sponsored conference and before other scientists were able to evaluate the research, the press got wind of the story and ran with it. Countless TV and newspaper accounts, including...
...moviegoers, Hopkins became famous playing a "still part": Hannibal Lecter, the voracious serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs. He not only won an Oscar, he also vaulted into instant celebrity. "I thought it would be the role of a lifetime." He was right, and it is a celebrity he frankly relishes. He will phone the secretary of a chum and identify himself as "her friend who likes to eat people...
...supervised "demolition derby" auto races, but was hardly a risk addict. Nor was peer pressure a problem, says his girlfriend Raina Hedglin: "I don't know anyone who could influence him." At his funeral, friends and family buried a large jar of Jif peanut butter and a pack of instant pudding with him; they were his favorite foods. Hedglin dropped in a napkin she had saved from their prom...
...kissed by a handsome prince. The strength of the ballet lies in the noble and soaring melodies of the music, composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. With choreography by Marius Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty received its first performance at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in January of 1890, attaining instant success. Staged by Anna-Marie Holmes, the Boston Ballet's choreography tries to maintain the flavor and quality of Petipa's original movement by staying as close as possible to his original choreography, rendering the ballet an embodiment of the grand Russian style softened by a refined romanticism...