Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, in a talk with TIME, he used almost exactly the same words. And so one is left with the noble, and slightly poignant, image of a restless, ambitious, complex man trying and trying for simplicity. "There's a line in Turgenev," he says, "in Virgin Soil, that absolutely haunts me. It's a suicide note, and the entire note is, 'I could not simplify myself.' What an arrow through the heart...
...YEAR COVERS OVER THE PAST TWO decades have been a fairly eclectic mix of both the sacred (Mother Teresa, the Virgin Mary) and the profane (Big Cars, Bart Simpson). Breaking news provided the selections in between. This year our cover is temporal . . . that is, scientific, but with God undeniably in the details. It is a rigorous examination of how science and religion are intersecting at the end of the century, how the achievements of modern science just might be reinforcing religious faith rather than undermining it. To pull off such a challenging assignment, we chose Robert Wright, a science writer...
...LABEL: VIRGIN...
...Ronnie is asleep on his ranch. Madonna is anything but a virgin. Both Larry and Magic have stepped aside for His Airness and a man called The Shaq. And the Harvard men's rugby squad is on the verge of another national championship...
Ronnie was asleep in the Oval Office. Madonna was still at least like a virgin. Larry and Magic were dancing a duet in the NBA Finals. And the Harvard men's rugby squad had a national championship...