Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...married in April, was the son of martial-arts cult hero Bruce Lee, many of whose fans smelled mystery in his own sudden death from brain swelling in 1973. There may be solid ground for speculation about his son's demise...
First will come the channel bonanza: a simple expansion of today's cable world in which more and more stations and networks will become available on your box. Yet even 500 points of light will not necessarily mean a sudden bounty of new home entertainment. "There isn't an inexhaustible supply of talent out there waiting to fill 500 channels," warns Howard Stringer, CBS Broadcast Group president. "The first thing that comes to mind is what Alvin Toffler called the Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets...
...debates, sometimes acrimonious, sparked by the interaction of different racial groups." He observed that "the divergent and sometimes conflicting student voices on campus are often signs of vital, even necessary, controversy; of healthy self-asserting; of different but essentially human growth; of jarring but important moments of sudden discussion and self-discovery...
Coincidentally, 49 Muslim militants who have been charged with attacks on foreign tourists -- prime targets of late -- went on trial in Cairo. Some proclaimed allegiance to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last week's bloody crackdown...
Johnson has two collections of poetry and the language in Jesus' Son often has the feel of sudden poetry to it. His straight, pared down description occasionally swells, mid-sentence, to an intense and concentrated tone. Within the same sentence, he lowers the pitch again. The effect is stunning; life and language alike become the subjects of mind-boggling, lyrical leaps...