Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody has a life anymore, Hollywood tells us, only an afterlife. By now you are familiar with all those transcendental rehab movies -- Ghost and its spectrally sentimental cousins -- in which people return from the void to get a chance to say (What else?) "I love you." Audiences lose themselves in a teary mixture of awe and awww at these wistful fantasies, which now constitute an entire genre: sigh...
...while the big-time sports failed to bring home the glory, previously unheralded teams filled the void. From field hockey to women's basketball, the Crimson proved it can compete among the Ivy--and sometimes national--elite...
Last week, seniors found themselves in a temporal void, having completed their exams but left with a number of days before senior week activities got underway. Some of them worked to earn a few extra dollars, many chose to relax in the houses for one last week and make an occasional swing into Boston, while others took the opportunity to leave Cambridge for a while to visit places they didn't have a chance to see during their busy Harvard careers. A handful of seniors, who chose the travel option, split up into two cars that were slated to slither...
Only the Crimson's Albert Chang needed three sets to notch a win against Brown. The 22nd-ranked Chang had to fill the number one singles spot void in order to rest Mike Zimmerman. The other five singles players--juniors John Tolmie, Shyjan and Derek Brown, and freshmen Ian Williams and Marshall Burroughs--won in straight sets despite the fact that they were bumped up one slot by Zimmerman's absence...
...1980s can be seen as just another stage in the life quest of the baby boomers, the successor to the hedonism of the 1960s and the obsessive self-improvement of the Me decade. But until something new replaces it, materialism will in some fashion continue to fill the void. "There is a free-floating sense of searching for a value system," says Ann Clurman, a vice president of Grey Advertising. "All the instincts of the baby boomers are saying, 'Slow down. Figure out what's important.' But they haven't arrived at what that...