Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easier to understand Lowell's break with strict meter when Hamilton includes an excerpt from his Life Studies and describes the conflict many mid-20th century poets faced. The dissolution of conventional poetic form and style following World War I was perhaps the single greatest phenomenon in modern literature. It posed a critical problem for poets like Lowell: whether to jump into the newly opened vista by discarding form, carrying T.S. Eliot's innovations one more step, or to make poetry more powerful by struggling with a fixed meter. Lowell, who had trained himself to write in regular meter, finally...
Examing the phenomenon of alien encounters, "E. T. and Friends Magical Movie Visitors," features film clips from several science fiction films, and interviews with earthlings who claim to have met extra-terrestrials. Robin Williams, himself the former alien of "Mork and Mindy" fame, hosts the hour-long show. Joining E. T. and Williams are a squad of Coneheads from the original "Saturday Night Live," as well as other weird-lookers from the galaxy of cancelled TV series...
...Perry Como's Christmas Special." Dec. 18. Every year, audiences nation wide make Como's variety specials one of the week's highest-rated shows. You probably won't understand this odd phenomenon any better after viewing the show...
Rothman and Lichter call this phenomenon the "protean form of psycho-political rebellion" because the (Jewish) rebels sought out "change, flux, and fluidity... [aiming] at the continual destruction of social institutions, insofar as they interfere[d] with individual experimentation...
...might note, are a whole slew of magazines dedicated t the heady stuff of glamorous gossip-People, Us, The National Enquirer, and others. Why don't i read them? These mindless mags may contain the same tasty tidbits Time brings us, but they suffer from another peculiarly American phenomenon, overkill. There's just too much there, and besides, the average Time reader has qualms about sporting a copy of this week's Enquirer on the coffee table. There are image problems...