Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loose; indeed, zero was once scorned as the devil's work. It is such a familiar number today that it may be hard to believe there was a time--hundreds of years, actually--when our species counted and spoke but had no concept of zero. Seife and Kaplan both trace the history of naught, from its inception in Babylon around 300 B.C. through Athens, India and Europe later in the Middle Ages. It took Western mathematicians so long to accept zero because of their reluctance to treat nothing as something. Zero was equated with the abyss, the void, the unknown...
...attain under the tutelage of Homer or Flaubert (two of Scarry's favorite examples). She claims that the "ordinary enfeeblement of images has a striking exception in the verbal arts, where images somehow do acquire the vivacity of perceptual objects, and it is the purpose of this book to trace some of the ways this comes about." Literature contains structures and formats that allow the reader to envision brilliantly...
...lord. Now I know what it must have been like to have seen the Beatles or Elvis perform live. Those entertainers, of course, combined talent with pizzaz. Now, there's a trace of talent, an occasional whizbanger of pizzaz, and a hell of a lot of screaming. Oh the screaming! It has to rank as the eighth wonder of the world. It shatters ear-drums, gives you an irregular heartbeat, gives you irritable bowel syndrome I felt like I was in a hyena stampede for two hours. Why are these girls fainting, throwing their underwear, crying their eyes...
...Time also reported that these companies do not offer very specific claims, for fear of provoking the Food and Drug Administration. These drinks may contain only a trace of the mentioned herbal ingredient...
...wall. The tables are covered with piles of paper, technical manuals (including Presentations for Dummies) and cables from the team's numerous laptops and cellular phones. The whole set-up is remarkably impermanent--the team could pack up and leave in about 20 minutes without leaving a trace...