Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem to think a monstrous effect must arise from a monstrous cause. But not much evidence turned up to make the eruption plausible. An isolated, unwholesome smudge of a life: Thomas Hamilton, unmarried, 43, a thwarted scoutmaster with an obsessive interest in guns and a habit of photographing very young boys naked from the waist up. It seemed a familiar but dislocated story, the kind usually set in dreary rooming houses across the Atlantic--narratives pieced together after the grisly, ground-breaking crimes that are an American genre...
Sliding with smooth facility from jealous to tender, maternal to monstrous, Silje Normand cradles her sleeping lover in one of the play's most emotive and best-written segments. Her manner is stylishly minimalist and her accent, which vanishes and reappears at random, is delightful. Normand skillfully handles what is probably the most overtly melodramatic line in the play, screaming, with a sudden viciousness, "I want to strangle your dreams inside...
...This is a frightening fact--that the push for racial integration is not a goal of a political leader. That this unconstitutional mindframe can appeal to a portion of the populace bears testimony to the erosion of America's social values. Where are the counter-attacks to his monstrous assertions...
...capabilities, and could distract it from Sun's own successful business. Even if Sun could figure out how to solve the short-term problems, it would inherit all the bigger conundrums that have bedeviled Apple for most of its brilliant, exasperating life. So the bet for Sun is monstrous: acquiring Apple could destroy either or both companies...
...idea is straightforward. Instead of buying bigger and bigger hard drives to store programs that seem to grow more monstrous with every upgrade, why not let the Internet be your hard drive? The World Wide Web contains more data than you'll ever use. Java, in theory, can retrieve all the software you need when you need it. All your computer really has to have is a fast processor, a good Internet connection and a few built-in programs to handle E-mail and word processing. If the price is right, predicts Larry Ellison, chairman of software giant Oracle...