Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first glance, the Bowling Alone thesis would seem to fit neatly with the post-'60s outlook of conservatives who believe an overweening central government is like a great tree whose shadow does not allow civic engagement to grow underneath it. But Putnam's thesis, as Nicholas Lemann wrote in the Atlantic Monthly, also has had an appeal for liberals exhausted from their battles to keep federal money flowing into their programs. A revival of civic engagement, Lemann pointed out, doesn't require spending money or raising taxes, yet it satisfied the liberals' yearning for social activism. And it relieved both...
Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) is the epitome of the easy-going, yet inquisitive town peacemaker--even his name seems responsible. Unfortunately, it's also the name of his legendary father in whose, enormous shadow he and the rest of the town, it seems, stands. The townspeople are happy to revere Deeds Sr. and Sam's "saint" of a mother. But the new Sheriff Deeds is determined to dig up dirt about his father, spurred on by the discovery of bones and badge belonging to the relentlessly reptilian Sheriff Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson) whom old Sheriff Deeds may have killed...
...they all stand in the shadow of Alvin and Heidi Toffler, the husband-and-wife team whose 1970 blockbuster, Future Shock, blasted the infant profession into the mainstream and set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted back onto the front pages through their association with Newt Gingrich's "cyberbrain trust," the Tofflers are about to be repackaged for the digital era by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood agenting Goliath. The vehicle for this effort: a multimedia clearinghouse called FutureNet, which is building everything from a site...
...summer after my junior year I decided to work in a lab in Paris. It was interesting work, and I could use my newfound knowledge later on in the summer to explain to my German teacher what might be the cause of her battle with the 5 o'clock shadow. Of course I couldn't be too sure about it--I only knew that "Daisy" (a kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate on me that I had to take...
...Station, where the Boston of yesterday and the Boston of tomorrow converge to produce the ugly mess that is the North Boston of today. Here lie the remains of the venerable home of Boston sports, the Garden. Alongside is its newly-erected replacement, the FleetCenter, which casts a domineering shadow over the continuous stream of cars and trucks on Causeway Street below...