Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those pigeons? What troubled me was not simply that I didn't know but that I might never know. In early 1996, I reported in this very column that 4,000 pigeons had disappeared from Trafalgar Square, and I still don't know what happened to them. Could a phenomenon--some sort of Bermuda Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that's growing thicker...
...Vrrrrrrrm." That is how The Seascape opens and closes, to the roar of a helicopter. At first I thought that the loud rumble of the helicopter unnecessarily interrupted the dialogue and contributed little to the play. It was like the sea creatures to me, a strange inexplicable phenomenon. Also like Leslie and Sarah, though, it had been included by Albee in the text. And it was actually a welcome refreshment from the visible degradation of the human couple. The roar mocks the neverending paralysis of their lives and parodies the tireless moans of their conversations. The helicopter scares...
...takes readers from the wealthy Buckhead mansions north of Atlanta, down through the bustling business district and into the slums with one seamless narrative. Current trends and ideas are summarized with pithy aphorisms: Exercise-crazed women become "Boys with Breasts" and get-rich-quick schemes induce "The Aha! Phenomenon." Wolfe entertains readers with his keen ear for dialect and penchant for Dickensian names like Armholster, Peepgass and Armentrout. And of course, when it comes to clothes, who but a dandy like Wolfe would note the difference between a twist-weave suit and a hard-finished worsted...
Childhood depression is a disturbingly common phenomenon. About 3.4 million Americans under 18 are said to be "seriously" depressed. That's a lot of gloom in a group so young--and a lot of potential consumers for Prozac and its neurochemical cousins Zoloft and Paxil. In North America, up to 800,000 antidepressant prescriptions were written last year for children, some only five years old. A number of those kids were also taking stimulants like Ritalin, since depression can be a by-product of wrestling with ADHD...
Senior Pete Strothman, captain of the Harvard co-ed sailing team, will be traveling to the U.S.-Japan Goodwill Regatta in Newport Beach, Calif. over Thanksgiving Break to represent his country. Freshman phenomenon Margaret Gill and senior Brian Fox will accompany Strothman to the prestigious event as his crew...