Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conducted dozens of worthy science experiments, had begun to challenge at least one long-held perception about the red planet and had transmitted more than 1,700 photos of the landscape, many of which were incorporated into a "monster pan," a spectacular 360[degrees], three-dimensional, horizon-to-horizon mosaic image that, when viewed through 3-D glasses, is almost as good as being there. The mission had also achieved a historic first on Mars: a motor-vehicle accident...
...logged on to a computer in his home to view some pyrotechnics of the digital kind. Gore had been following Pathfinder's progress all day. And now he was seeing the first images, sent by E-mail to a few top officials before they were made public. The color mosaic of the rocky Martian landscape as seen from Pathfinder so excited Gore that he rushed back to his White House office after the fireworks to download still more pictures. It was close to midnight before he went home...
...country is a mosaic of backwardness and new thinking, of worship of Mammon and nostalgia for Mao. Hong Kong poses no graver threat to the powers in Beijing than homegrown forces already at work; the embrace of individual enterprise has forever undermined the basic tenets of communism. The pace and uncertainty of this unique transition frighten as many Chinese as they embolden. Whatever the Chinese are on the way to becoming, they offer this counsel: Naixin. Patience. Xuyao shijian. It takes time...
Woods portrays the Lord of the Underworld as a sour, conniving Hollywood agent. He works every meeting, with gods, mortals or demons, as if it's a bored crowd in a Vegas lounge ("So is this an audience or a mosaic?" he asks after a gag bombs). Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths. And when he blows his smoldering top, it's like Krakatau in orgasm. In character, design and performance, Hades...
...book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal part of her lesson. She challenges them to come up with ways of figuring out which color is bigger and how many it would take of each to make a whole. Hands fly up. Voices have to be restrained. Soon...