Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems a little simple. It can appeal to a flintstone fundamentalism that argues that materialist secular humanism, with its seductive technological wealth and toys and vices, fosters a godless hubris. But no one except Melville's grandfather thinks Flight 800 fell from the sky because its passengers wanted to travel too fast...
...backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves) as statistically acceptable as ever, but psychologically harder now. The passengers on Flight 800 began a trajectory to the City of Light and ended, after a few minutes...
...harmless strangers, inanimate objects), or they read malignant meanings into random events, or they think the very furniture will rise up and murder them. Horrors like Flight 800 tend to nudge the sanest minds into the demoralized routines of paranoids. They grow jumpy, irrational. Such familiar rituals as air travel turn sinister...
...boxing but also in judo, fencing, wrestling, weight lifting and track and field. Contrary to popular belief, Cuban athletes are not constantly watched by security personnel. Each of Cubas' five defections went off without incident. Cuban authorities even allow such loyal athletes as high jumper Javier Sotomayor to travel the world freely...
...tall, 180-yd.-long limestone wall surrounding Graceland, visitors scrawl thousands of messages, usually in Magic Marker. Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, sketches parallels between two categories of pilgrims: visitors to Graceland and early Christian acolytes. "What was true of early sacred travel is true of Graceland today," he says. "People leave votive offerings behind and take away relics...