Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success of Beavis and Butthead on-air as well as off, with a best-selling book, an album release and other hot merchandise, has made these characters a true media phenomenon," Lisa Silfen, director of consumer products at MTV, says in the statement...
...phenomenon of minorities, especially Blacks, deciding to live primarily with members of their own ethnic or racial group is visible today on may college campuses, in various forms and degrees of seriousness. In one of the more extreme examples, Cornell University has dorms exclusively for individual minority groups. Harvard has its own, much milder version of self-segregation: eighty percent of Black students here live in the three Quad houses...
...hard to imagine overseers on boardsof corporation where it would be convenient to getscientists to do the research for them," Smithsays. "The excessive overlapping of corporateboard members as general phenomenon is troubling...
Across the board -- and the ocean -- skirts were mostly very short. One wonders where designers spent the brutal winter just past as they designed their collections for the coming fall. (Not only were skirts scanty, but there were also plenty of bare midriffs.) Of course, the micromini phenomenon is partly phony, since clothes are shipped to stores at longer, more freeze- friendly proportions. Nonetheless, if one house shows short, others apparently feel obliged to be just as daring. Never mind that mass-market stores like the Gap are selling thousands of midcalf dresses every week. A micromini with fancy tights...
Mack's view of the UFO phenomenon reflects a larger philosophical stance that rejects "rational" scientific explanations and embraces a hazier New Age reality. "I don't know why there's such a zeal to find a conventional physical explanation," he says. "I don't know why people have such trouble simply accepting the fact that something unusual is going on here . . . We have lost the faculties to know other realities that other cultures still can know. The world no longer has spirit, has soul, is sacred. We've lost all that ability to know a world beyond the physical...