Word: morph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weren't we supposed to have "convergence" by now? The TV, telephone and computer were going to morph into one all-purpose computing, entertainment and communicating device. Instead we've got digital divergence--scores of ever smaller specialized gadgets that have insinuated themselves into our once uncluttered lives. The latest example: two-way pagers...
...that much we know. But fans of this most salacious patch of the Lewinsky scandal (and who isn't one?) will remember that the media's February frock frenzy included tales of another dress, generally held to be a slinky black cocktail number, that seemed to mysteriously morph into the blue dress in reports this week...
What really shook me was her opening line. What was she thinking? Was it honestly her expectation that I preserve my junior college ignorance and naivete into my 30s and 40s? And then was I to morph, with marriage and motherhood, suddenly and traumatically into final adulthood? The realization was breathtakingly frightening...
Affluence enabled Jewish mothers to stay at home and suffocate children with well-meaning dictums and chicken soup, while wives and daughters had the leisure to morph into superficial, whiny consumers. At least, that was how the situation was presented by Jewish male writers and artists, Davidson noted. The scholar counts Phillip Roth, Herman Wouk and later Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld, among those who introduced and popularized such stereotypes concerning Jewish women in American culture...
...Raphaelite hunk who also shines in the sumptuous new Dangerous Beauty, flashes a sullen magnetism here. But the playing is not the thing; the play of images is. In this city--part Moderne, part Magritte, part Manhattan collapsed onto itself--houses sprout like tropical flowers; office buildings magically morph in a technique that might be called Virtual Realty. You have to watch carefully, for this is not an ingratiating film. It drops you into a foreign landscape without guidebook or translator. It is as cool and distant as the planet the Strangers come from. But, Lord, is Dark City...