Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where will the hyperlinks end? The Internet redefines the limits of human desire, zipping instant images of gratification 20 inches from our eyeballs. We click at our discretion and can quickly remove ourselves into our own fantasy slide shows. Seventeen roads diverge on a 17" screen...
...Flyers are unbeaten in 22 of 23 games (16-1-6) since ending a seven-game winless streak on Nov. 14. During that slide, they lost 5-1 at Montreal in perhaps their worst game of the season...
Zoller closed in on junior goaltender J.R.Prestifilippo and sent a weak backhander on thegoalie's stick. But Prestifilippo, who was forcedto slide with the attack, couldn't control therebound. Hustling in on the Harvard goal andbeating the defense by a half-step was forwardBrian Cummings. Cummings knocked the puck into theopen net to snatch away...
...weapons capability. But U.N. inspectors quickly hit a wall: Saddam had no intention of cooperating with their inspections. So, eager to do their jobs, they turned from monitoring to spying to uncover his hidden caches. In interviews with key intelligence and military officials, TIME has pieced together that slow slide into espionage--one that peaked last March when a specially trained operative from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency slipped into Iraq as part of an UNSCOM team. U.S. officials stressed to TIME that they never misused the inspection agency. Explained an exasperated White House aide: "The whole purpose...
...slide down the surface of things" runs the constant refrain of the novel, and while Glamorama's 482 pages of vacuous characters provoke a desire to surface, to break out of the trap of celebrity, it also points out the pervasive nature of glamor. Ellis is often more interested in being cool than actual meaning (the novel opens with a Hitler quote); with Glamorama, he seems to be saying that this is the only truth we all share