Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, "Clueless" was on TV and "Armageddon" was in the theatres (my cousin said it was so-so, a "typical American movie"). American sitcoms are not what I expected from Israel. Just as at home or on vacation in other parts of United States, it has become a search to find things authentic--the genuine, unfranchised restaurant and the ever-more-elusive regional item that was not manufactured alongside American knick-knacks in China. It is remarkable how similar the battle against corporate blah-ing exists here...
Then the fireworks finished, and the true Darwinian struggle began. A crowd the size of most cities began to search for a way home. The Metro stops became clogged with celebrants patriotically pushing and shoving to squeeze into the overcrowded trains. Buses were no better. The huge crowds shut down the nearby streets as men, women and children, young and old alike, ran after taxis and buses, even offering money to people with extra space in their cars...
...online bookseller that has lost more than $30 million since 1995 with nary a penny of profit in sight. No matter. Amazon's $5 billion in market value exceeds the combined capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following three straight years of losses. Ten thousand dollars' worth of Yahoo purchased at IPO in 1996 would be worth $1.68 million today. "Investors are treating...
...stock goes up. But such panicky buying only serves to raise prices higher still. So do hopes that a FORTUNE 500 giant will pour big bucks into an Internet company. Disney did just that last month when it acquired a 43% stake in InfoSeek, the third largest Internet search engine, in a widely watched transaction that valued Infoseek at more than $1 billion...
...plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...