Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quest for existential significance requires one to experience the interconnectedness of human lives within the larger world; it illustrates that our meanings, values and goals are necessarily formed and shared through our relationship with fellow human beings, rather than in some individualistic vacuum. Since existential significance is a formation of the human community, the question "What can I do with my life that is existentially meaningful?" becomes "What can I do with my life in order to improve the conditions of the human community...
...lifted faces of Siegfried and Roy stared down from between the white tigers whose diminutive, fluffy clonelets fill a whole shop on the ground floor of the Mirage, high art has descended on the desert with a palpable clang. It had to come. It has come. Art abhors a vacuum, and if Las Vegas hasn't earned a name for being culturally underoxygenated, what place in America has? If the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City can hang banners advertising Tiepolo or Goya from its Fifth Avenue facade without having fingers wagged in its face, why shouldn...
...struck by the number of commercial vendors peddling their wares at the fair. Alongside the portable hot tubs and incredible vacuum mops (as seen on TV), lies the Miracle Blade 2,000. Slicing tomatoes at an alarming rate, the salesman counts off the numerous features of this precision cutlery. Unimpressed? Stare in wonder as he begins sawing away at a steel hammer with the "knife that never needs sharpening". Buy one receive four free steak knives, all conveniently packaged in plastic...
...every Israeli neighborhood with fences, to surround all historic areas with walls. Lively modern Israel, its stores, pastimes and errands, just can't wait. But more likely it is a conscious choice: politicians, rabbis, sheiks--they too are human, and cannot live and be believed in a vacuum. Just ask George Washington about how accessible King George III was. Adam I. Arenson '00-'01, a Crimson editor, is spending the year in Jerusalem...
...result: students can feel that "they'redoing chemistry in a vacuum," Grogan says. Thethesis committee "is really a rubber stamp," afrustrating process for those interested inconstructive direction for their work...