Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amistad Again Steven Spielberg puts his craftsmanship in the service of moral seriousness. Again, in this true tale of a slave mutiny and its nightmare aftermath, he creates a gripping portrait of human decency mobilized to help an inhumanly abused minority. Again he unsentimentally places us in touch with our best sentiments...
...campy details capture the novel's overarching irony. As humor is Hartley's means of survival, it is also his means of narration: "Just when I'd decided I had the soul of a drudge, just when it came clearest I was the muddy flower-peddler, not her aftermath-princess, just when I felt that Immortality would only know me as a helpmeet, just when I'd gained six pounds, Farce, as it will when your happy-quota shades off into urban gray, intervened: all pinks, oranges, reds." Thus comedy begets tragedy: just as Art Spiegelman could best explain...
...Meanwhile, both sides continue to declare victory in the aftermath of the three-week standoff. Saddam has declared that November 20 will henceforth be known as the Day of the People, a celebration of "victory over the enemies and the covetous ones." In Washington ? home of the covetous ones ? National Security Adviser Sandy Berger emphasized that Saddam was given "no understanding, no deal, no concessions" to resolve the crisis...
...Marc J. Ambinder contributed to the reporting of this story.CrimsonLinda S. CuckovichIN THE AFTERMATH: Defense attorneys (front, from left) HARVEY SILVERGLATE, BARRY C. SCHECK and ANDREW GOOD address the media...
What happens now? As every trader knows, we have to retest the ugliness of last Monday before we have the cathartic capitulation. In fact the rest of the week unfolded in textbook irony, almost exactly like '87's postcrash aftermath. Which means we are probably a few more days away from a bottom. How will you know? Easy: business will be back on the business pages where it belongs, and talk of a year-end rally will fill the air. And the only people still at the corner of Broad and Wall at 6 a.m. will be selling coffee...