Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent day, the youngest children gathered around the small pond in Helmer's backyard, collecting water samples and aquatic plants for study. In the former living room, an older group struggled with the intricacies of urban planning -- where to put the power plants, whether to build a highway, how big to make the municipal hospital -- by playing a complex computer game called SimCity 2000 on the school's five new Macintoshes. Members of a third group could be found in the garage, sanding and sawing to create kid-size furniture of their own design...
...their schools. "The idea," says Baltimore schools superintendent Walter Amprey, "is to have a company ready for true accountability that offers a way to pierce the bureaucracy and gives us a model that, if we have the will and courage, could change the collective culture of failure" in urban schools...
...most obvious market is the 10 million to 12 million homes, largely in rural areas, that are not reached by cable. (About 3.6 million of these currently have one of the older-generation big dishes.) But why would an urban cable customer be induced to switch to a dish? The home-satellite companies are trumpeting their higher-quality picture and CD-quality sound, as well as a larger array of channels. Primestar, for example, offers a package of 14 regional sports networks that provide college football games on Saturday, and DirecTV will soon offer pro fans a full complement...
...died last week of a heart attack at 80, the first modernist movie hunk. He sprang to prominence in the emotional chaos after World War II and was a star in his first role, as the doomed Swede in The Killers (1946). Immediately viewers could spot a gritty urban charm, brooding good looks, a handsome physique. He made the most of this charisma in The Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which he won an Oscar...
...think Kristen makes an excellent point in bringing up the effects of something like this," Gutierrez said. "When you look at social pathologies of urban areas these days, you have no support institutionally and you have so many vices to distract you from intellectual achievements...