Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role of Cyrano is indubitably one a talented actor could cultivate. Few other productions afford an actor the opportunity to portray an adept swordsmen, a hero of battle, a wit of court society and a lover all in the span of two hours...
...this point, disentangle Dan Quayle from Dan Quayle jokes? He seems to induce a short attention span in others, leaving them stunned with a serene vacancy. The New Republic has penalized with mock awards people who are foolhardy enough to speak well of him. Can anyone be taken seriously who takes Quayle seriously...
Earth Day 1990 is destined to follow the new tradition of Live Aid, Sport Aid and Band Aid: it will appeal to the abbreviated American attention span $ with a huge 24-hour dose of stunts, palaver and celebrity hoo-ha. But the environmental movement will be able to survive its commercial mugging, dust itself off and plod forward toward its goal of a cleaner planet. For Earth Day is merely marginal, a loud fashion statement for a quiet revolution in American life. From East Los Angeles to Taylor, N.Y., the morning after Earth Day will find millions of ordinary environmentalists...
...WERE SAYING? Argentina's President, Carlos Saul Menem, has never shown a sustained attention span for details. So a top aide was surprised during a recent private meeting to find the President nodding vigorously and taking copious notes. When Menem was called from the room, the aide could not resist peeking at what the President had written. What he found was Menem's ideal lineup for a local soccer team...
Armed with machines that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and span miles, researchers have forged a largely coherent model of the universe's basic building blocks. Now they are clamoring for the $7 billion-to-$8 billion superconducting supercollider, a mammoth device that may complete the picture -- or torpedo it. -- Can physicists ever fully understand the nature of matter...