Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rush online? And why now? Part of the answer is technological. With stereo speakers and built-in CD players, today's multimedia computers have turned into surprisingly good sound systems. Throw in a telephone connection to the Internet, a fast modem and software like RealAudio 3.0 (which lets you hear "stereo-quality" sound in real time, as it downloads), and a world of online music opens up on your computer screen. With a higher-speed connection (via cable modem or isdn line), you can even see music videos and live Netcasts, which, while still pretty herky-jerky, are a decent...
...national trend of conservative retrenchment. Almost as if mimicking President Clinton, the training ground for professional bureaucrats and policy junkies has abandoned its liberal foundations in search of a more "inclusive" public persona, or at least one which isn't so unappetizing to the likes of the blubbered blatherer Rush Limbaugh and the prostitute-cum-patriot Oliver North...
...industry's gold Rush days are fading fast. Two years ago, anybody with an idea and a PC could create and sell his product. But a glut of titles is taking its toll on smaller firms...
...rush of scientific optimism that followed the polio vaccine and the first moon walk, Richard Nixon declared war on America's second biggest killer: cancer. Twenty-five years and $35 billion later, the news from the cancer front is good...
David (played from youth successively, and quite engagingly, by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) might have been a sweet-souled musical prodigy. But he had a brutal stage father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...