Word: transient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baskett does not compare himself to Atget or Brassai; their tradition of exploring and exposing the very skin and bones of Paris inside is not his own. Instead, "These photographs concern small moments and transient feelings, ephemera that may never have existed outside [a] single morning's ramble...
...bursts but also their lingering afterglow of X rays and optical light. Three years later, a larger satellite with keener vision will conduct similar work in more depth. "Classical astronomers thought stars produced a steady emission in one wavelength," says Gehrels. "Now we realize we have all these flashing, transient things going on." Modern astronomers --with their modern machines--may at last determine what some of those strangest things...
...issues of sweatshops, globalization and the world outside of academia used to be very foreign to the transient and largely imported student body of Harvard University," wrote the Commission...
...people graduate and come back and send their kids, who graduate and do the same. This town of 23,000 is not as tony as nearby Clayton or Ladue; it has its mix of $90,000 cottages and $750,000 homes, young marrieds and old-line families and transient middle managers assigned to a stint in the St. Louis office who are looking for a comfortable place to settle and keep their kids on the track toward prosperity...
...least, we hope so. Although long-term Cambridge residents may feel threatened by the prospect of transient students setting the council agenda to suit their needs as much as they are frightened by the encroaching yuppie vote, the fact remains that students do constitute a significant percentage of Cambridge's population...