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...event leaves the rest of us in a state of unease and vulnerability. The flight attendant still instructs us to fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves...
...that the Clarks and their cohort are sore losers in the perilous game of farming and ranching. "They just sit up there dreamin' up things to be a public nuisance," says rancher Tom Wilson. "We're all sick of it." But everywhere there's a strong desire for a bloodless settlement. "We think they were led astray," says former Garfield County commissioner Kenneth Coulter. "They were possibly gullible because of their financial situation...
...heartened because--surprisingly--both federal agents and outside militias are acting calmly, carefully and sensibly in a concerted effort to avert violence. It is a tribute to the efforts of both sides that the standoff remains bloodless...
SOCIAL CRITICS SHOULD be wary of proximity. Examining a volatile issue--sex, class, race--from too far away can make the resulting work seem bloodless. Standing too close puts the observer at risk of being sucked into the overly confessional world of daytime talk shows. In his new essay collection, Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (Oxford; $23; 218 pages), Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as a Baptist minister, gets the distance just right. In his prose one hears the fervor...
...both sides of a question is cited as a lack of vision by those who perceive life with a terrible clarity--the world view, for instance, of the much younger Rev. Tony Ferris (Michael Cumpsty), who connives to unseat his older colleague. The play chronicles a sort of bloodless coup, with plenty of palace intrigue provided by the Anglican hierarchy...