Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitcoms have traditionally been set in one of two places: home or the workplace. But Seinfeld, the prototypical hang-out show, moved the genre into a third realm. Jerry and his friends have apartments and jobs (most of the time, anyway). But they deal with their embarrassing predicaments each week in a kind of in-between world: in halls and doorways, in the backseat of taxicabs, in a booth at the local coffee shop...
...concept of virtual reality (VR) begs for use in the sexual realm. Nearly anyone who thinks about VR in terms of its depiction in Hollywood (consider "Lawnmower Man" or "Disclosure") can think about it for another five minutes and come up with the idea of virtual sex. Certainly computer developers, fully aware of the double entendre intended in "fingering" someone (cf. Fifteen Minutes last week), are forging ahead in pursuit of the virtual orgasm...
Stearns' opinion outlines the balance of concerns that must guide any attempt to pursue law and order in cyberspace. This new jurisprudential battleground is littered with double-edged swords. While it is clearly important that the laws of this new realm be explicit and enforceable, it is even more vital that the legal system have enough perspective and flexibility to deal with a world that is changing at fiber-optic speeds...
...felt the security guard was pretty much inhis realm of responsibility," said Shannon, whohad seen McCombe around campus previous...
Tragic romantics let ideals dissipate their lives. The realm of the possible for them is at once infinite and unachieveable. Always waiting for perfection to arrive or always working adamantly and vainly for it, their expectations of life are never tempered by concession to reality. Tragic romantics are a paradox: they are eternally blissful in themselves and eternally tortured by the world...