Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study this phenomenon, I spent a few early morning hours seeking out the Yard's nocturnal souls and asking them why they stay up so late. I had my excuse: journalistic persistance. What was theirs...
...Vedder continued, advocating the protection of women's reproductive rights, it became clear that the change he was talking about was not the one initiated by the recent election. Instead, he appeared to be focusing on the conservative talk-radio phenomenon that has swept the country. Among its voices, Rush Limbaugh speaks the loudest. While Limbaugh is often viewed as a member of the entertainment sphere, a kind of rock star to middle-aged white men, he is a key player in the nineties political landscape. A recent Time cover story entitled, "Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America," fails...
Following the November election, it seemed that, whatever the causes for political upheaval, Limbaugh had been vindicated. I looked to his nightly television show and his daily radio show in hopes of seeing what the Limbaugh phenomenon was about, and perhaps locating the root causes of the congressional shift to the right. My worst fears were realized as it became obvious that the melange of facts, opinions, exaggerations, and blatant misrepresentation I had seen as a "Republican comedy showcase" saw itself as a credible podium for news. Moreover, it was equally frightening that many Republicans in power accentuated their ties...
...uncertainty, along with the spottiness of the archaeological record-even in an intensively studied area like southern France-makes it hard to know whether art, once invented, was a universal practice. Probably not, argues archaeologist Olga Soffer, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Art is a social phenomenon that appears and disappears and, in some places, may not arise at all." But many anthropologists counter that the term art is usually defined too narrowly. What paleolithic humans really invented, they say, is symbolic representation, and by that definition art may well appear in every culture-though it might...
Between 1940 and 1970, 5 million blacks moved up north from the South, a mass movement described in The Promised Land, a five-part documentary series airing next week on the Discovery Channel, as "the greatest peacetime migration in American history." It was a phenomenon that went largely undocumented at the time. Many of the migrants-and the ones focused on in this lucid, moving documentary-came from the Mississippi Delta and headed due north, to the booming city of Chicago...