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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some may denounce the lack of altercation as uncreative, Shakespeare's original comedy is strangely suited to film. The magic of the lens makes it possible for Pfeiffer's excruciatingly beautiful Titania to fall in love with an Ass (played by an eager Kevin Kline)--a revelation that never...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (WITH MICHELLE PFEIFFER) | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

Wetherell sees Net company valuations through a mathematical as much as a financial lens. He loves to cite Metcalfe's Law of Connectivity as the driving force behind his approach. The law, set down by Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, states that the value of an interactive network--such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Internet's Money Machine | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Many of us have spent most of our college years being what we like to call "over-committed"-to classes, to student organizations, to jobs, to everything. But in reality we are more often under-committed, investing too little in our friends and our selves. One of the most common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making Time for One Another | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Bizarre consequences, Godel showed, come from focusing the lens of mathematics on mathematics itself. One way to make this concrete is to imagine that on some far planet (Mars, let's say) all the symbols used to write math books happen--by some amazing coincidence--to look like our numerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mathematician KURT GODEL | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

X, Y statements reveal much about a classmate's views of a particular problem but they do little to further academic dialogue and can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry. When students simply impose their favored narrow lens upon the subject instead of remarking insightfully about the shared...

Author: By Adam R. Kovacenvich, | Title: As an X, I Feel Y | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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