Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illness and the use of leeches to cure it, comments to the audience how odd it is that they are making all these modern references and have no idea what modern medicine is. Why didn't Auletta just change Moliere's references to leeches, too? Because he wanted to wave to the audience, and yell, "Hey, I'm here...
...century resembles the America of the late 19th century, when the Progressive movement emerged as a great national force. As it was 100 years ago, America is on the cusp of a massive economic transformation: then it was the rise of industrialism and cities, today it is the "Third Wave" of information technology and global markets. And, as at the end of the last century, Americans are profoundly unnerved by this change...
...flaw. The surplus of melodramatic overacting gets tiresome. Every character who appears on the stage for more than three minutes is immediately assigned a scene in which he can showcase his abundant lung capacity in a fit of uncontrollable anger, or a shuddering, tearful breakdown. And each emotional tidal wave produces a sage, if somewhat cliched, statement of advice that could be applied to Jacob Zulu, South Africa and the world...
MANCHESTER, NH--From the White Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, a new wave of conservatism swept through New Hampshire last night as conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan scored a major upset and won the nation's first primary...
...wake of the 1992 riots there was a flurry of hopeful talk, a tidal wave of good intentions and a number of special programs set up to rebuild the neighborhoods hardest hit by fire and looting. Yet Payne has jumped through more hoops than a circus tiger, and still has not managed to cobble together the financing to rebuild and expand Taylor's Corner into a 16,000-sq.-ft. minimall, containing a full-service grocery store, a laundry and a real estate office. His journey through the system of public and private lenders has shown him that when...