Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Depending on what service one subscribes to, one is immediately put into a certain mode of thinking, a certain virtual world: some services have diagrams of a neighborhood where, for instance, one would click on a picture of a theater on the street to gain access to entertainment Web sites, or on a bank to gain access to financial services...
What happened? Of its 266 days in very trying isolation, the jury spent only about half that time actually in court, the rest under virtual detention. Many knowledgeable critics are convinced that sequestration is not all it's cracked up to be. Uelmen "can't imagine" trying such a ballyhooed case as Simpson's without shielding jurors from prejudicial publicity, but he believes "we need to find some sort of middle ground" so that jurors do not end up as soul-sapped prisoners. "I think where the system is most vulnerable is the pool of people willing and able...
...also interjects a premonitory canary which appears to have fallen in a pot of scarlet (Geddit?) paint. The scarlet admonition then materializes like a cartoon birdie every time Hester (Demi Moore) glances at a man. In a High Mass of heavy-handedness, this fowl of doom engages in virtual sex with the slave girl Mituba (Lisa Jolliff-Andoh) in a bathtub while Hester and Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman) go at it in the seed bins...
...these predictions are correct, then the typical U.S. parish of the future may come to resemble a Protestant-style congregation, a virtual democracy directed and administered by members who also have considerable leeway in determining who will preach and conduct religious services. Those Catholics who now petition for a greater say in the running of their parishes may someday get even more than they asked for, if only by default...
Rupert Murdoch's new conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, published its first issue in September. It is the self-styled voice of the conservative revolution. The headline emblazoned across the magazine's cover was PERMANENT OFFENSE. But the most notable article was a virtual endorsement of Powell for President by William Kristol, the Standard's editor and the G.O.P.'s most influential strategist. So much for the revolution...