Word: warping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Black Looks insists that these representations are harmful because the warp people's conceptions of reality. hook's anger with these images is most clearly evident in her perceptive essay on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings. She dissents vehemently with those who see the hearings as heralding the "arrival" of Black Americans, the definitive demonstration that this government can work for them on a color-blind basis...
...biggest impulse to the recent explosion, however, has been the end of the cold war. "The reason why the ethnic rivalries and aspirations surfaced so suddenly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is that till recently communism kept them in a time warp," says Oxford history professor Robert O'Neill. Tensions burst forth with explosive fury as soon as the lid of dictatorship was lifted...
Bush refused to engage Perot directly, saying he would prefer to wait until the "time warp" of summer has given way to the fall battle. But the press conference also emphasized just how out of touch Bush seems. When a reporter asked whether the President's low standing in the polls was not a rejection of his message, Bush's fuzzy answer hardly suggested a firm fix on the public mood: "I don't think so, because you ask in these deadly polls that you read all the time, you know, about -- relating to issues -- and it's vague...
...TIME WARP...
...sense of mid-'60s retro time warp seems almost deliberate. The omnipresent piped-in music is a dated, Muzaky mishmash. Outside the vast white Pavilion of the Future sits the pan-European Ariane 4 rocket. There is a heliport and, of course, a monorail...