Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing is going on until at least 11 p.m., and everything comes to a dead stop by 1 a.m. for the rare House party, 2 a.m. for all city establishments. At that point, further pickings are slim. Guys without a club go home, and girls bat eyelashes, wipe spilled beer from tight black pants and smile pretty at the door of a final club...
CONFLICT Majority Hutu extremists tried to wipe out the Tutsi minority...
...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make...
...where you live and what courses you take, Harvard has tried to eliminate differences based on personal resources, though of course it cannot wipe out all effects of personal differences in family means...
Besides being dull, the plot entirely fails to come together at the end. The Wheel of Fortune theme that seems to show such promise never comes through and seems ultimately unrelated to the novel's meaning. The idea of a man bent on causing apocalypse to wipe out the consumer society is little more than a regurgitation of long overused cliches. And neither is the message of Messiah any major surprise. The messiah saves the world through-what else?-love! Here is a safe and time tested-vision but one incapable of laying claim to any originality...