Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rails. To cite a historical example, would Alexander Fleming have isolated penicillin if he had to conduct his research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final rebuttal on admittedly risky ground: what Andorsky dubs that "nice sentiment" about the space station being an inspiration to humanity and a symbol of "what's right with America" and the world. Andorsky fumbles in his effort to get a grasp on the value of idealism, perhaps because there is no universally accepted definition. Yet it strikes me as significant, and compelling, that the same president who exhorted the American people...
...realize was that we were also getting a corporate raider. For an article in Wired magazine late last year, Quittner found out that McDonald's was one of several big corporations that had not registered their company names as domain names on the Internet (those letters that follow the @ symbol, identifying the sender). After trying in vain to find a company executive who could tell him why, Quittner simply registered the McDonald's name for himself...
...cover of the Courses of Instruction may be looked at in another way: hopelessly out-of-date people going about their own business, boxed in by the inflexible heavy bars of the network. At the center, an ugly, messy web of wiring forming the Harvard "H," that symbol that should stand for the best. Let's make sure that this unconventional reading of the cover art is never an accurate one. The way things are going, it could become truth...
...trip to the moon: "We did things that people thought could not be done...I know most people at the time thought it was impossible." The Space Station would be to the `90's what the Apollo program was to the `60's: a beacon of hope, a symbol of humanity overcoming insurmountable obstacles, with the United States bravely leading...
...dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible dumbing down. Astonished attention must be paid...