Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...texts came into being.) But only in the past 40 or so years have linguists and anthropologists come up with a plausible theory of how those poems must have been made. Homer--or the collection of bards given that name at some point in the murky past--did not wander around Greece with 12,109 lines of the Odyssey committed to memory. Instead, the Homeric repetitions so familiar to readers of English translations--all those "wine-dark seas" and "rosy-fingered dawns"--were actually stock formulas allowing the bard to fill out his line of verse and get on with...
...Thinking Tag get-together, people wander about and let their badges do the work. When they approach within five feet of each other, pairs of tags sniff and display their results in a neat row of five red and green leds. What happens when you encounter someone who sets off five red lights? Do you turn heel and flee to a more compatible piece of chestware? In the "tag meets" that Borovoy has run, that hasn't been the case. "People are very sophisticated readers," he says. Opposites, after all, sometimes attract...
...MUDS (multi-user dimensions). These virtual worlds have flourished in text-only form for years; now faster networks and better software tools let developers create graphic 3-D versions. Trippy futuristic environments such as Time Warner's Palace Website and the landscapes of Worlds Inc. invite Net surfers to wander in and explore, chatting with strangers, flirting, picking fights, hatching plots...
...analysts of the equity division toil. The atmosphere is more subdued than you would imagine in a place where billions of dollars are riding on the employees' bets. The staff is spread over three floors that are connected by an internal staircase, and stock analysts and fund managers wander around a lot, sticking their heads into one another's offices and trading information...
...write a book or otherwise exploit his celebrity status, though he has spoken on a number of occasions to lawyers' groups. Nonetheless, among L.A. courthouse wags, "pulling an Ito" has entered the legal lexicon to describe someone who has become intoxicated by a celebrity case. Gawkers still occasionally wander into Ito's courtroom, now located on a higher floor, to see the familiar face preside over routine criminal trials. Last April Ito suffered a setback: a federal judge overturned his second most famous case, the 1991 state conviction of Lincoln S&L chief Charles Keating, on the grounds Ito gave...