Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flashy but nonetheless eye catching. The band is mostly unknown in the States; its current album, Traveling Without Moving, is a mere echo of stronger, tighter, better American R. and B. from the '70s. Virtual Insanity, a rant against technology that draws heavily, if not entirely successfully, on Stevie Wonder for musical inspiration, is the only truly catchy song on the album. In the video we see Jamiroquai's singer, Jay Kay, standing alone in a mostly empty room. The floor seems to move as he dances, sings and poses; furniture appears and vanishes. The clip is somewhat...
...good thing about winning re-election: this year Bill Clinton didn't have to consult pollsters to choose his vacation spot. But when he returns next month from three weeks of golf and sun on Martha's Vineyard, the country may wonder if another election looms, because the White House will be dispensing a new dose of the same formula Clinton and his pollsters perfected in last year's campaign. Call it the Cult of the Child. From day care to children's health to keeping schools open all afternoon, the White House will be churning out new kid-focused...
When the sense of mystery is abolished, when the truly awesome gets replaced by the merely cute, we don't stop wanting to feel the goose bumps of cosmic wonder. We just pack up our curiosity about the universe and trundle it off to a place like Roswell, N.M., where a few unanswered questions are still allowed to live a furtive life. Though even there the wondrous quickly collapses into kitsch--T shirts and coffee mugs featuring darling little almond-eyed fetuses from space...
...going on. Until recently, El Ninos came more or less periodically every two to seven years. But in the early 1990s several El Ninos appeared in a row, one right after another. Now, after dying down in 1995 and '96, El Nino is back. What is going on? scientists wonder. Are frequent El Ninos a signal of global warming caused by human tampering with the atmosphere? Or do they arise from random fluctuations in the natural cycle? There are as yet no good answers to these questions. Observes Michael Glantz of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "The discrepancy between...
Every time I see a cook flipping burgers or a cleaning woman emptying the trash baskets, I wonder if I can resist the temptation to rob them...