Word: phenomenonally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FOXs Ally McBeal this past January, taunting the title character at random moments. Viewers can also see the Dancing Baby in a Blockbuster advertisement. The baby has spawned t-shirts, hats and mousepads. From its immaculate conception about two years ago, "Dancing Baby" has become the newest, coolest media phenomenon of the nineties...
Could that really be all there is to the Surge phenomenon? A visit to the drink's website (www.surge.com) suggests otherwise. The site is little more than a Surge fan club which visitors are encouraged to join. Teasers for the happier life that awaits the Surge Club member entice the unwary web surfer. But an all-too-brief browse is enough to show that these Surge-clubbers are not to be envied. To join, one enters, along with the requisite vital statistics, the answers to such "No Fear"-esque questions as "Do you have a life? If so, what...
...resignation: he prepared the ground and the atmosphere that made that resignation possible. Gorbachev is such an entirely political creature, and yet so charismatic, that it's hard to come to any conclusions about him as a person. Every attempt I know of has failed miserably. The phenomenon of Gorbachev has not yet been explained, and most of what I've read on the subject reminds me of how a biologist, psychologist, lawyer or statistician might describe an angel...
Walesa is a phenomenon. Still mustachioed but thickset now, he stands for many values that in the West might be thought conservative. Fierce patriotism ("nationalism," say his critics), strong Catholic views, the family. He's a fighter, of course. But he's also mercurial, unpredictable--and a consummate politician...
Bizimana refers to Hutu and Tutsi as "small political and economic" groups. "You cannot call them tribes," he says. Yet even if tribalism is an inadequate term, it does speak to an emerging and explosive phenomenon in other parts of the world. Fragmentation, Balkanization, the dissolution of states: at a time of blurry borders and contested nationhood, ethnicity may become the most common--and easiest--organizing principle for nation builders. In the next century, conflagrations of apparent tribalism will not be set off by old ethnic rivalries as much as by contemporary political struggles--struggles that power-hungry leaders will...