Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since then, the injunction to love and to be loved has hummed nonstop through popular culture; it is a dominant theme in music, films, novels, magazines and nearly everything shown on TV. Love is a formidable and thoroughly proved commercial engine; people will buy and do almost anything that promises them a chance at the bliss of romance...
...somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
...first day to define the most ill- defined job in America. After a decade of getting up early, popping into her blue Oldsmobile and driving her daughter Chelsea to school before heading to work at Little Rock's leading law firm, and after a year of nonstop, around-the-clock campaigning, she now has time for a second cup of coffee. Of course, her new position has its privileges: she gets to live in the country's most famous house, jet on Air Force One to visit heads of state and throw parties with the most impressive guest lists...
...associate editor Priscilla Painton and senior writer Walter Shapiro, it was the end of a long road. Since July one or the other has been at Clinton's side almost nonstop. Some pundits think this kind of close-in coverage blurs a journalist's objectivity. Counters Painton: "You can read all the position papers and interview all the campaign staff you like, but there is nothing like spending 17 hours a day with someone to get a feel for his presidential character...
...wonder so many voters say they are soured, numbed and disaffected by the long procession of public statements, charges and countercharges, newspaper photographs and television film of seemingly nonstop campaigners at endless rallies. A disenchantment bordering on bitterness consumes the public attitude toward the whole punishing business...