Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first observed the phenomenon over the summer as I walked through the streets of Paris. I was strolling past a cafe, when I heard the words, "C'est cool," being muttered from afar. I stopped, turned my head and followed the mutterings until I found their source. My eyes came to rest on a group of teenagers, none of them more than 16 years old. They were smoking cigarettes and talking...
...what these French seek to prevent, others call a dream come true--the emergence of a universal culture. Should we really by trying to stop this phenomenon or should we be rolling out the red carpet and celebrating its arrival? Or does what is happening in France indicate the ugly truth that a universal culture can never exist because each country will fight to preserve...
Amidst this dark, frenetic atmosphere, however, a phenomenon of rebellion, of hope, has sprung up. Students are slaying the proverbial dragon of "Thou Shalt" and regretlessly pencilling in what is increasingly being called "sun time," time spent doing the non-constructive--sun bathing, playing frisbee, baseball--or even, for the more Anglophilic, cricket, in one of the more beautiful springs in recent memory...
...black hair is a phenomenon familiar to any who have had a chance to step within the hallowed halls of the Science Center. Black hair and brown eyes, two characteristics which can be attributed to the crowd of Asian-Americans anxious to fulfill pre-med requirements...
This isn't simply a coming-out story; it's about a much less categorical sexual phenomenon. The husband remains attracted to women, not men, save for this one man, whom he devours. The result is misery for everyone -- although no one is quite as miserable as the painter's roommate, a transsexual dying of AIDS. Mark Mocahbee has staged a supple, swift-paced and solidly acted production, minimalist save for screens that display the characters' unspoken thoughts. And the vice squad? They came, they saw and this time they decided the show...