Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more things change the more they stay the same. Once again, for the third straight year, the quest for the Ancient Eight crown appears to be a two-team race...
...more things change the more they stay the same. Once again, for the third straight year, the quest for the Ancient Eight crown appears to be a two-team race...
...Dickensian panorama. The other novelty is Carl Sternheim's 1911 satire of German bourgeois class anxiety, The Unmentionables, adapted to McCarthy-era America. The laughs it now evokes are mostly sentimental recognition for bygone jingles, not the disquieting humor intended in the original play's dissection of the quest for respectability...
...cost of McCaw's visionary expansion is a staggering debt load of nearly $5 billion and losses of $715 million in the past two years. Even with that burden, McCaw is expected to play a crucial role in AT&T's quest to conquer the emerging field of wireless communications. Almost all calls now originate or terminate on conventional wall-jack telephones (even if they are cordless within the home). But analysts predict that cellular-type phones will gradually replace hard-wired sets. That could mean trouble for local telephone companies, whose monopoly depends on phones remaining tied down...
...sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...