Word: spheres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nation's gross domestic product. Collectively, these new financial instruments are called derivatives. Financially, they function like some giant unseen asteroid -- they influence the markets' movements with a powerful and dimly understood gravitational pull. And if they wobble out of orbit, they could conceivably come crashing into the sphere of day-to-day investments with cataclysmic effects...
Eugene O'Neill's play A Touch of the Poet at the American Repertory Theatre attempts to knit together the conflicting American consciousnesses of respect for an old order and the self-emancipation of the new. These dichotomies are played out in the domestic sphere of Captain Con Melody's inn during the 1828 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson...
...illuminates. In his analysis of Cities of the Interior, for example, he investigates Nin's strategies of describing desire. This investigation leads into a further investigation of the power of the masculine gaze in defining female sexuality both in other media (primarily cinema) and in the contemporary public sphere...
...dolce vita," Marcello Mastroianni plays Marcello Rubini, a journalist who makes his living By reporting the scandals of the rich and famous, the "high society" of Rome. Marcello is not just involved with this society in the professional sphere of his life; he adopts their strange and decadent lifestyle. Often it is unclear whether Marcello is reporting on the people he is spending time with or whether he has become a part of their society. The story does not have a conventional plot, rather, it evolves scene to scene, with a modernist and discontinuous structure...
...BALL. A metal sphere just over two feet in diameter was placed at the bottom of a long, spiral track. The ball moved, as if by magic, slowly and smoothly up the perilous incline. Almost 24 feet in the air, the ball stopped . . . A pistol shot rang out, and hands holding flags emerged through holes in the ball...