Word: lurking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through a rust-colored room of densely packed works. Each is accompanied by a careful explanation from a social, historical or stylistic perspective. Every work demands the viewer's attention and thought by itself, and in concert with the works surrounding it. In the fever of all these ideas lurk the artistic gems of the collection: three paintings which need no explanation...
...colors and dime-store special effects, to the more meditative, slickly produced Next Generation, to the relatively conventional action-flick pleasures of the feature films. In all its incarnations, however, Star Trek conveys Roddenberry's optimistic view of the future. Sinister forces and evil aliens might lurk behind every star cluster, but on the bridge of the Enterprise, people of various races, cultures and planets work in utopian harmony. Their adventures, in the early days, were often allegories for earthbound problems like race relations and Vietnam -- problems that were solved with reason. A key concept of the show, which began...
...since a crew of astronauts heroically corrected the instrument's blurred vision last December. The orbiting observatory has snapped dramatic pictures & of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashing into Jupiter, discovered hundreds of what seem to be solar systems in the making, and provided proof that giant black holes lurk in the cores of galaxies. But all this was just a warm-up for the Hubble's most eagerly awaited mission: to gauge the age of the universe. The question of how old the heavens are is not only fascinating in its own right but also bears directly on just...
...know. Our country is not obsessed with sex. To the contrary. We wear ourselves out working, we are surrounded with noise and distraction and all manner of entertainment, we indulge our children as they run roughshod over our lives, the ghosts of old aunts and beady-eyed preachers lurk in the shadows watching us. Considering what the American couple is up against, it's astounding to think that once a week or once a month or maybe just on Memorial Day and Christmas or whenever the coast is clear, they are enjoying this gorgeous moment that is, despite its secrecy...
Still, it's hard to imagine a culture more conducive to feelings of sexual inadequacy than America in the 1990s. Tune in to the soaps. Flip through the magazines. Listen to Oprah. Lurk in the seamier corners of cyberspace. What do you see and hear? An endless succession of young, hard bodies preparing for, recovering from or engaging in constant, relentless copulation. Sex is everywhere in America - and in the ads, films, TV shows and music videos it exports abroad. Although we know that not every zip code is a Beverly Hills, 90210, and not every small town a Peyton...