Word: abyss
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...other hand, if you were to visit the New-York Historical Society's current exhibition (running until July 9), entitled "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America," you might find yourself staring into something like the same moral abyss that presents itself if you visit Auschwitz. Before the question "How could this be?" the mind goes into a state of moral shock...
...Abyss Creations...
...from his Iowa blowout, Gore was just being himself, only more so: more manic, more combative, more determined to take every position Bill Bradley has ever held and try to strangle him with it on national television. It was Bradley last week, under rising pressure, who looked into the abyss and concluded it was time for a change in tactics. And in the end, that could turn out to be Gore's sweetest victory...
...liver, titanium hips and knees, artificial heart, transplanted kidney and reconstructed DNA--could write this letter in my century and pick it up in yours. ("Dear Me"--the perfect address for a solipsistic time.) No thanks. It is enough to be able to send these words across the abyss of years to tell something of who we are. We are members of a narrative species, you and I--two eras connected by a story that changes just enough to keep it interesting...