Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Intimate moments like these are rare in The Century, but they truly enrich it. The most striking and evocative images in the series come from home-movie footage of the Los Alamos scientists at rest--here they are seen kicking back, drinking and giggling as though they were any random group of unburdened 26-year-olds...
...sexiness in Carrie-Anne Moss as super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here. And that's a rare and welcome commodity in mass-market moviemaking these days...
...wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems CEO John Warnock, an avid rare-book collector, Octavo has so far published 15 titles. Others soon to come include Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Wycliffe New Testament (the first English translation). Octavo CD-ROMs cost $20 to $50 and are available at www.octavo.com...
...gentleman at table and a beast in bed; often she stares at him as if he were under glass or in a cage. The movie asks, What would you pay for great sex? Your self-esteem? Not the great Huppert. This swank, thoughtful film gives full rein to that rare actress who, as tears stain her cheeks, can radiate a heroic insolence toward the man she love-hates...
...last third of the century. It was probably most intense in Britain, whose public schools at midcentury had adopted a particularly severe system of sorting by test at age 11. By 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court had banned the use of IQ tests in employment except in very rare cases...