Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked a few of the more musically oriented of my friends about the phenomenon, and they all agree the homogeneity isn't as much a result of shared taste as it is a matter of convenience; a consensus builds that most of the songs following me from party to party can be found on a single compact disc...
Readers have always been interested in behind-the-scene books by the prominent; St. Augustine was on to a good thing when he wrote his Confessions back in A.D. 401. But the success of unhappy stories by the largely or completely unknown is a new and, to many, puzzling phenomenon. Publishers aren't worrying much about why such stuff sells so well; they're too busy trying to acquire and peddle more of it. A ferocious bidding war erupted over the manuscript of a 98-year-old Kansas grandmother that tells of her harsh life with an alcoholic husband...
...anime has been extremely popular for decades. Some anime exports, such as Astroboy, Star Blazers and Transformers, have come to the West in the form of television programs and have been around since the 1960s. The mass exportation of anime, however, is very much a mid-to late-80s phenomenon, marked by the apocalyptic 1988 movie "Akira...
...would never doubt my old buddy. But just to be certain we were dealing with a national phenomenon here and not a Beaverton-centric statistical anomaly, I checked with Raoul Felder, one of New York's better-known divorce lawyers (he handled the off-line antinuptials of Robin Givens as well as those of the ex-missuses of Frank Gifford, David Susskind and Carl Sagan). "I have a number of those things where they meet on the Net and talk dirty and arrange rendezvous," confirms Felder. In fact, he says, his firm has handled "50 or so. Easily...
...have kept calm and cool even as my brow begins to sweat over accusations that somehow I was given a favored, academically undeserved admittance to this school. Astonished, I have witnessed impassioned arguments for unequal funding for predominantly black schools and vehement protests against the allegedly all-black phenomenon of welfare dependency. Racism is alive and well in America and at Harvard...