Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satellite phone at least twice a week. "I love him," says Kabila. "We have always talked about the future of Africa and this problem of being a continent of beggars. We look to Rwanda, Uganda, Angola--and many more countries--to be a United States of Africa." The notion sounds fantastically far-fetched. Africa's modern history has been written in the blood of tribalism: wars of secession, violent coups, gruesome vendettas...
...make Mickey Mouse." Leon Schlesinger, the stingy despot who ran the unit until 1944, would begin his viewing of dailies with a curt "Roll the garbage." Schlesinger did inspire his troops once: his lisp was the basis for Daffy Duck's voice. Schlesinger's successor, Eddie Selzer, hated the notion that his slaves might enjoy their work. He once sputtered, "What the hell has all this laughter to do with the making of animated cartoons...
...darkest shade of no-one-understands-me seemed to claim their place in the Zeitgeist. Launched in 1988, the now defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those who wear tube tops. In 1989 came the cult film Heathers, featuring a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as a teenager who undiplomatically cleanses her social pool of its more loathsomely superficial members. And throughout it all brewed the Riot Grrrl movement...
...sensitivity to the challenges facing applicants from other countries. In admitting American applicants the admissions office routinely makes allowances for different challenges faced by students. On a similar level Harvard should recognize the problems encountered by otherwise qualified foreign applicants in pursuing extra-curricular interests societies where the very notion is often anathema...
...hard to scare the bejesus out of people in matters existential--like When am I dead? At one time the notion of removing body parts was so ghoulish that families hardly discussed it and doctors, in the infancy of transplant technology, rarely raised it. Even now, after decades of increasing public comfort, the thought that a hospital might be eyeing you not as a patient to be saved but as a new liver for Mickey Mantle is very spooky...