Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administered, I am in position. A congenial nurse named Debby clutches my hand reassuringly. Achkar wonders if I would like to see the proceedings on a video monitor. Suddenly a world I never imagined existed lights the screen. I am awestruck, feeling the amazement that a spelunker might experience upon discovering a similarly rose-colored passage deep in the earth. But my wonder is quickly tempered; the exploration I am witnessing is in my own bowels, not the earth's. Also, it is painful, and I gasp as the creature squirts water and air to clear the passage. Debby squeezes...
...inspirational stories go, this one is pretty good. Once upon a time--1989, to be exact--a pair of aspiring authors compiled a book of their favorite inspirational tales and poems. They grouped them according to topic and chose a catchy title. Then they hired a professional book agent to help them get their dream between hard covers. One major publisher after another turned them down cold, and after the 33rd rejection, their agent quit. Face it, they were told: "Parables don't sell." And that title! "Too nicey-nice." But the plucky authors soldiered on. Finally...
...mind is apparent in everything she did, from her savvy use of logos to her deep understanding of the power of personality and packaging, even the importance of being copied. And she was always quotable: "Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road...
...would not let him. Whatever his subject--his native Ireland's struggles for independence, the growing chaos across Europe--he turned current events into lasting art. In the aftermath of World War I, he pronounced a memorable verdict: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
...There is no popular need right now for multimedia. That's obvious," sighs Michael Joyce, the father of hypertext fiction--nonlinear storytelling in which plot lines unfold in different ways upon subsequent readings. Joyce, an associate professor of English at Vassar College, wrote the "classic" hypertext novel, afternoon, a story. The piece is told one screenful of text at a time; by clicking on adjectives and verbs, readers veer off in far-flung narrative directions. While this may sound like the same experience as following hypertext links around the World Wide Web, afternoon was written in 1987 and distributed...