Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are all, God knows, energetic, and their never-a-dull-moment playing commands our astonished attention. You almost feel that if you let it wander for an instant, someone would reach out from the screen and slam you with a two-by-four. At the same time, you are aware that they are shoving this melodrama of class and manners uncomfortably close to farce and robbing the story's ending of its quietly stated force...
...dangerous place to be if you're alone. There's a lot of high temperatures and lots of equipment," he says. "It's really just not a safe place to wander...
...that never came before ordering a search of the house. She gave that order not to other cops but to John Ramsey, who found his daughter's body in a basement room and carried it upstairs--a complete violation of police procedure. Meanwhile, Arndt allowed friends and neighbors to wander in and out; coroner John Meyer, arriving to examine the body, had to push through a crowd to enter the house. As the months have gone by with little new evidence, it has become increasingly clear just how disastrous those initial blunders were...
...always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once...
...worry about them when they wander into the world of adult television, with its sex and violence and sass. But in reality, prime time provides only about five violent acts an hour, while the Saturday-morning baby sitter offers children about 26 such acts an hour. Studies have shown that the more violence children watch, the more likely they are to act aggressively. A child watches more than 100,000 acts of violence on television before he or she is finished with elementary school, according to the American Psychological Association...