Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Technology is bringing the world much closer together," she continued. "But, virtual reality will never substitute for human connections and relationships...
...happened already, some Ph.D. candidate will write a dissertation on the effect of poetry readings on the practice of poetry in 20th-century America. The poetry reading itself has a venerable tradition--in the Woodberry Poetry Room, one can listen to a virtual roll-call of American poets reading at Harvard, from T.S. Eliot '10 to Robert Lowell and beyond. But, at some point, perhaps in the 1960s, the act of reading one's poems aloud to an audience--one of the main ways poetry is consumed today, and a source of income for virtually every poet--clearly started...
...Republicans assembled in Dallas to renominate Ronald Reagan 12 years ago, the incumbent President had already achieved mythic status. He led his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, by an impressive 14 points in the opinion polls. The re-election campaign was considered to be a virtual formality. Even Reagan's opponents conceded his "magic" and had all but given up seething about it. "Not since Dwight Eisenhower," wrote TIME in its convention issue, "has the U.S. public felt such fondness for its leader." TIME's Hugh Sidey declared of Reagan, "He is a refrain from Stars and Stripes Forever...
...Wynorski ain't no Krzysztof Kieslowski--though, like the late master of European angst, Wynorski directed a trilogy. Oh, you didn't catch Wynorski's Sins of Desire, Victim of Desire and Virtual Desire? Then you may not know the rest of his work, sequels (Sorority House Massacre 2, Body Chemistry 3, Ghoulies 4) to movies you also never heard...
...smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have been saying that for the past week." Meanwhile, Jewell continues to be the object of media scrutiny and finds himself a virtual prisoner in his own house while his attorneys furiously file motions to get his property returned to him and to gain possession of FBI affidavits taken from people at the scene. For now, Jewell remains in limbo. "We just wish these jerks up there would get off their butts...