Word: abyss
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...Jaruzelski declares martial law and says Solidarity leaders would be interned in what he calls an effort to save Poland from "the abyss...
...talk of war plays upon the fears of the young. "They feel like passengers in a car racing toward an abyss," says Horst Eberhard Richter, a professor of psychosomatics at the University of Giessen. "They have a desire to grab the wheel...
...more than 56% of all jobs in the American labor force. Yet all across the U.S. managers and owners of small businesses are reeling as the towering cost of money pushes one firm after another to the edge of bankruptcy and, all too frequently, right down into the abyss of forced liquidation. During the first week of October alone, 468 U.S. companies, ranging in size from neighborhood dry cleaners to sprawling regional lumber mills, closed their doors for good, a rate that is more than double the number of a year ago and a cruel reminder to Ronald Reagan that...
...escape of Iran's ousted President Banisadr reminds me of Alexander Kerensky, who in the 1917 Russian Revolution brought his people to the brink of an abyss and national calamity, then fled...
Still it is slapstick in the face of the abyss and one cannot ignore the callousness Shakespeare rather crudely intended. And it is in this aspect that the production manages to overcome the weaknesses in the play itself. Peter Stein has directed with a great deal of thought; and in some respects, he has presented the show as a series of miniatures complete in themselves, maintaining a flow while allowing each scene with its own vacillating emotions. The elaborate denouement, always the bane of this play, and most often done as some sort of grand processional, is handled masterfully, Stein...