Search Details

Word: nigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...them neatly folded next to their body. It was a remarkably well-choreographed departure. But the largest mass suicide in U.S. history blasted the doors wide open onto a considerably less tidy world--a jumbled universe of UFOs and extraterrestrials careening smack into apocalyptic Christian heresies and end-is-nigh paranoia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1989-1998 Transformation | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...view of a rampant consumer culture (but they will happily sell you a CD!), frail Burroughs pushes a shopping cart out of the dead city. The band hopes to shoot two more videos during its PopMart tour in the U.S., says manager Paul McGuinness. Commuters, beware! The end is nigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Wipe the smirk off your face. This is not a paid announcement for Gore 2000. Of course, things are far from perfect--life at the bottom of the ladder remains a desperate struggle for millions of Americans, and scrambling up the rungs can seem well-nigh impossible. But get used to it, pilgrim: For better or worse, this may be just about as good as it gets in the U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...Currently competing for last place is former O.J. girlfriend Paula Barbieri, who only last January signed a reported $3 million deal. While the public's appetite for books on the case has been ravenous beyond publishers' dreams, Viking must be a little concerned that the end is nigh. Two months ago, the publisher announced that it was halving its planned 1 million-copy first printing. And now it must promote the heck out of a book that has little in the way of illuminating information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CLOSING ARGUMENT? | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...video and Internet information the victims left behind. But the largest mass suicide in U.S. history has blasted the doors wide open onto a considerably less tidy world--a dense and jumbled universe of UFOs and extraterrestrials careening smack into unusual astronomical happenings, apocalyptic Christian heresies and end-is-nigh paranoia. Do and Ti, or Bo and Peep, or the Two, as Applewhite and his former partner Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles were known, plucked bits of this and pieces of that doctrine like birds building a nest, intertwining New Age symbols and ancient belief systems. And for scores of spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next