Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small clique of siliconaires--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Steve Jobs of Pixar--the question is: Why Bill Gates? Slightly more than a decade ago, the four geek tycoons were stumbling around an industry not much larger than their pocket protectors. But Gates graduated into the history books, while the other three seem headed for footnote status. It's not a role they cherish...
...Every religion," as the great scholar of the world's belief systems, Huston Smith, points out, "mixes universal principles with local peculiarities," and the latter, he goes on, "are not easy for outsiders to comprehend." Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was more often described as a "cult" before it took over 375 organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus...
...steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent. Over a fire that evening Noyce asked Kilmer for his ideas about The Saint. "By the time he finished," Noyce recalls, "the sun had come...
...sun keeps rising on Kilmer's career. Since his one-film reign as the Caped Crusader in the 1995 hit Batman Forever, the California-bred actor has built bridges and killed a lion in Ghost and the Darkness, played a thief with marital troubles in Heat, nearly outmannerismed Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau and provided the voice of Moses for next year's Prince of Egypt, the first DreamWorks cartoon feature...
...believes that reggae is a spiritual salve: "In Jamaica, when things got tough, the only thing we had for the solace of the soul was the music," he says. On the album's final track, Guess What's Happening, Luciano sings of seeing a man "toiling in the burning sun...wondering if and when he's gonna have his share." The song hints at revolution, but the tune is easy and carefree. It's smiling insurgency...