Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another. All these images commingle with recollections of passive, exhibitionistic childhood sex. That is virtually all that happens in Gordon Lish's Peru, an incantatory monologue of a novel. Even the murder may not have happened: police and psychiatrists figure nowhere in the narrative, as they would in the aftermath of a crime. Whether this slight, tightly focused book is a confession, a nightmare or a tease, its mesmeric voice requires, and rewards, a close reading...
...praising the "dedication, high level of effort and in many cases personal sacrifice" of NASA personnel, it charged that "undercurrents reveal a hidebound space agency fraught with lax management oversight, intramural turf battles between headquarters and key field centers and a tendency toward compartmentalized bureaucratic thinking that, in the aftermath of the accident, has generated self-serving responses...
...aftermath of the space shuttle catastrophe precious little has been said in support of public education. Instead, in honor of the seven dead American heroes who were aboard Challenger, President Reagan has promised that America will continue to "reach for the stars" and recently submitted a budget that provides for more dollars for NASA research and development...
...loss of the shuttle was a more profound event than that suggests. It inflicted upon Americans the purest pain that they have collectively felt in years. It was a pain uncontaminated by the anger and hatred and hungering for revenge that come in the aftermath of terrorist killings, for example. It was pain uncomplicated by the divisions, political, racial, moral, that usually beset American tragedies (Viet Nam and Watergate, to name two). The shuttle crew, spectacularly democratic (male, female, black, white, Japanese American, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant), was the best of us, Americans thought, doing the best of things Americans...
...aftermath of the assassination, Mrs. Aquino impressed many Filipinos with her heartfelt attempts to unify the splintered opposition. Although she disavowed any interest in political office, her reputation for moral integrity pushed her to the front of the anti-Marcos movement. Two months ago, she said she would become a candidate for the presidency only if Marcos called a special election, and 1 million Filipinos signed petitions urging her to run. Two days before Marcos signed Bill No. 7 last week, Aquino's supporters presented her with stacks of petitions bearing 1.2 million signatures...