Word: abyss
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...awake accomplice was FM Co-Chair Liz Maher. It was the aftermath of something far more criminal than a robbery or homicide: It was a typical FM production night, which meant it was the following day—and near the end of a seemingly eternal abyss of time...
...graft is just 6%. "There has to be some retribution," says Tehelka.com's Tejpal. "Otherwise we have no system." To some, the system is already down. "We've come to accept that for the time being, there's no way out," says anticorruption campaigner Singh. "We're into the abyss and we're only going to sink further...
...whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths I discerned something else entirely, the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from blacks by an abyss of linguistic and cultural incomprehension. "Is this not true?" I asked during our interview. "Is this not what you are saying?" The pen scratched, the writer cogitated. "I would not wish to deny you your reading," said Coetzee...
...black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths it is the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from black Africans by an abyss of linguistic and cultural incomprehension. "Is this not what you are saying?" I asked at our interview. The pen scratched, the writer cogitated. "I would not wish to deny you your reading," said Coetzee. As the great South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life...
...Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinead O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip...