Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just signed on as a correspondent with Fashion Week, a new TV show that premiered on the E! cable channel two weeks ago. It is one of four fashion-news shows that have sprung up in imitation of mtv's successful House of Style, starring Cindy Crawford. The paradigm for the supermodel-as-enterprise, Crawford is surely inspiring many of the professionally beautiful. Her various ventures-a TV show, exercise videos, contracts with Revlon, Pepsi and Kay Jewelers-earn her an estimated $6.5 million annually. According to a recent tally in Forbes magazine, she is one of 10 supermodels with...
...paradigm of management and labor isinappropriate and brings a host of problems withit. The first is the politicization and divisionbetween graduate students and undergrads, facultyadvisers and the administration," McCambridgeadded...
...that does not help. As the hours slip away and you see life passing you by, you remember the real chess paradigm, Nabokov's Luzhin, the genius who finally apprehends "the full horror and abysmal depths of chess" and goes quite bonkers. And you know you've got to stop...
There comes a time when all good paradigms must come to an end, and so ends this essay. Before the next paradigm overtakes me, I want to leave you with my thanks for bearing through these 634 words of unbridled enthusiasm by one who has been awakened to the power and the glory of paradigms at Harvard...
...Shakespeare artfully conveyed the drama of the paradigm, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought it to life in the character of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes's paradigms were broad, deep, convincing. They forged fiction into reality for thousands of believers who will tell you that the great sleuth lives on at 223B Baker Street, puffing on his paradigms. Why not? It only goes to show that one person's paradigm is another's world...