Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grown women simulating oral sex on bananas, the new Mia Farrow predictably performing less than swimmingly. Later on she remarks that she has turned from an English teacher into the kind of woman she hated previously, but she's happier now. It is funny that in attacking the phenomenon of celebrities' opening their bedroom doors and allowing their fans to become intimately acquainted with them, Allen does the very same thing...
...high school English classroom. The quote is about identity, and the very fact that someone took the time to voice those thoughts reflects the American preoccupation with personal identity. Furthermore, the quote suggests that the way one presents oneself to others is integral to one's identity--a phenomenon peculiar to this era and this country, according to Neal Gabler...
Once he has tracked the evolution of the phenomenon, Gabler shows us the extent to which Americans have gone to sculpt and alter their own identities, with examples such as the market for professionally written term papers, a retirement community in Florida designed to offer its residents a 24/7 Disney World experience, celebrity quick-change artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson and a woman who underwent 20 plastic surgeries to remake herself in the image of a Barbie doll. He points out the difference between the "inner-directed" character valued in America's past--composed of personal qualities and goals...
...assume that mathematics as we know it is still valid within Memorial Hall. We must look to alternate explanations for the phenomenon. Assistant Professor of Mathematics Mike J. Nakamaye, who teaches Math 25a: "Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra," has put forward one theory. "Measurements of fat content in Annenberg food undoubtedly rest on faulty linear approximation techniques," he said in an e-mail message. "To the extent that the food at Annenberg is everywhere homogeneous and nowhere differentiable, linear approximations are doomed to failure...
...risk of oversimplifying a rather complex business phenomenon, it can be said that the easiest way to grasp the essence of what Sam Walton meant to America is to read his ad slogan emblazoned on all those Wal-Mart trucks you see barreling down highways around the country: WE SELL FOR LESS, ALWAYS. Walton did not invent discount retailing, just as Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. But just as Ford and his cars revolutionized America and its industrial model, Walton's extraordinary pursuit of discounting revolutionized the country and its service economy. Walton didn't merely alter...