Word: res
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teleputer to what we used to call a channel and just veg out. Don't get me wrong. I like the little programmable hostess who greets me every night on my flat-panel screen. In fact, since I upgraded to the new version, the one in the high-res body stocking, I've developed a bit of a crush on her. I love the way she spices up the stuff that's good for me with the trashier stuff I like to watch. The other night when I told her I wanted to check out this new service the fellows...
...Harvard Polo Club galloped to the semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tournament at Cornell on Friday before losing to the host Big Res...
...res Americana now stands, no one can make a truly informed electoral choice, since our august candidates' utterances have little correspondence with their future actions. The proponents of democracy argue that by voting, citizens exercise control over their future. But who has any control when no one has any idea what a vote for any candidate means...
...weeks after she lost the premiership, Thatcher took comfort in the fact that protege John Major succeeded her, and she hoped to exercise wide influence over post-gulf war policy. Major has largely backed away from Thatcherism, however, and has done nothing more than pay tribute to Thatcher "res-oluteness and staunchness" in committing Britain to the anti- Saddam coalition. Heeding the obvious signal that Major does not need her counsel, Thatcher will almost certainly leave politics. "It's all over. It must be terrible to go out that way," notes a sympathetic former associate...
...Woman assume new personas in the second and more interesting of the two plays, A Theological Position. The work opens in media res, after Man has brought the pregnant Woman to Priest (Richard Claflin). Apparently, Man is questioning the puzzling genesis of their unborn child. He wants help and advice from the Priest--some allusion is made to the possible demonism of Woman, but we do not discover the details until later. Playwright Coover's attitude toward the church is clear as the Priest voices his self-righteous rigidity. He says of the pregnancy, "Even if it should occur...