Word: neon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the darkness falls in Baghdad, you sit there looking out at the starry desert sky and you wonder, When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...
...daisy chain of sexual encounters. Hare updates the play in predictable ways--the soldier becomes a taxi driver; the "young miss" a miniskirted model--and has all the parts played by the two stars. The casting gimmick, along with the chicly impersonal production (a semiabstract set framed in neon), makes the vignettes seem more facile and obvious: Schnitzler's acid portrayal of sex as the great leveler on a climb up the social ladder now looks more like Love, American Style...
...favorite axioms. He was dead on, of course. The first impression you get from a restaurant, through the eyes and nose, is often what determines whether you'll go back. By 1963 more than 1 billion hamburgers had been sold, a statistic that was displayed on a neon sign in front of each restaurant. That same year, the 500th McDonald's restaurant opened and the famous clown, Ronald McDonald, made his debut. He soon became known to children throughout the country, and kids were critical in determining where the family ate. According to John Mariani in his remarkable book America...
...NEON In 1910 a French scientist named Georges Claude applied an electrical charge to a tube filled with neon gas (as opposed to a filament in a vacuum) and created a new kind of illumination. Car dealers did the rest...
...last, through extensive use of the World Wide Web, we have found the ultimate electronic hallucinogen [TECHNOLOGY, Nov. 9]. When enough computer-stoned Americans are floating through the neon-hued "planetwide sprawl of loosely interconnected chat rooms" called palaces, the criminal drug trade might just dry up for lack of demand. No one really needed opium after commercial television came along. Now it looks as if the Web will provide everything in the way of new experiences that Timothy Leary promised. JAMES ALEXANDER THOM Bloomington...