Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also blessedly unexplained. In the aftermath of the killing, we do learn that something dreadful happened to Louise years ago. Obviously it was some kind of sexual assault, but she never reveals its exact nature. This, of course, runs counter to the conventions of popular culture. If this were the TV-rape-movie-of-the-month, a hysterical revelation of the exact nature of the abuse -- especially if it were, say, gang rape or years of incest -- would be obligatory in order to balance the moral scales...
...Civil War ended slavery, but its aftermath produced sharecropping, a form of exploitation almost as severe. And the Delta was battered by all the economic swings of farms, its routines upset by advancing technology. When the sharecroppers were replaced by mechanical cotton pickers and tractors after 1940, the Delta blacks joined the 5 million Southern rural blacks who fled to the cities of the South, West and North, bringing to urban culture their broken hearts in a tragic search for a fragment of dignity and security. That migration, one of the largest such internal movements of people in history, transformed...
...racial divisiveness and other woes on the home front. But the celebrations cannot be written off completely, or even mostly, as escapism. The war in the gulf was one that most Americans were willing -- but not eager -- to fight, and that distinction has shaped their assessment of its ambiguous aftermath...
...times, there has been the danger of burning out. In 1990, in the aftermath of the Olympic experience, Wylie was about to quit figure skating for good because his results had plateaued and he wanted to get more involved in the school environment...
...atrocity's immediate aftermath, Gandhi supporters on streets across , India wanted to strike back but lacked clear-cut targets for their fury. As the news reached the capital that night, roving groups of young men with stubbly faces and mean looks converged on No. 10 Janpath, Gandhi's home in the heart of New Delhi. They were a rough, ill-clad bunch, much the sort that had gone berserk after Indira's murder and slaughtered thousands of Sikhs around the capital. Their mood worsened as the night wore on, and they beat up several cameramen for no apparent reason. Some...