Word: whither
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another victory? Before leaving his house for the airport, he took a few moments for his daily Bible study, reading from John 3:8, in which Jesus reminds Nicodemus, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth...
...immediately proclaimed victory, and said that while they weren't ready to talk specifics, they weren't ruling out anything as a possible remedy. Meanwhile, the boys from Redmond countered, reasonably, that the judge hasn't made any legal conclusions yet, so everyone should just hold off on those "whither Microsoft" pieces...
...violence, name your issue, in a way that Saved by the Bell never did. Today you hardly hear the word teen without angst following, but what these series display is adult angst with perkier buns and better clothes, grownups positing kids as canaries in the societal coal mine. Whither the world of tomorrow? these shows ask. And what designers will it wear...
What happened? Where have all the flowers gone? Whither the revolution? Is it all just fern bars and stock options, breast implants and cappuccino frappes from here till eternity? Well, it's kind of like your parents (whom, thankfully, you did not kill, despite Jerry Rubin's urgings) tried to tell you: if you weren't so damned self-absorbed, you might learn something...
...Whither PJ Harvey? Three years ago, while on tour to promote her unforgettable To Bring You My Love album, the reclusive English songstress revamped herself in an almost literal way. Suddenly she became a sort of hybrid of Tammy Fae Baker and Siouxsie Sioux, her eyes swathed in colors more appropriate to tropical fish, her red gash of a mouth hissing out the stories of weary paramours and suffering Magdalenes, then growling out feverish invocations that "Yeah I'm ready to meet ze monsta tonight...