Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band leads the way up the road toward the cemetery, then separates from the casket. At first it retraces its route by drumbeat alone. Then the trumpet screams forth, the drummers swing out, belted choruses of The Second Line assail the sky. The crowd, most of it, becomes a blur of fidgeting feet, twisting torsos, bobbing heads. A corpulent man in an orange shirt spins and dips. An elderly woman executes a scampering step with the help of her cane. An open-shirted youth leaps to the hood of a car and, after a flurry of steps, floats down...
...even as the statistics and footage of war receded in a blur of swoosh stripes, words began to sprout. A poem, a play, a novel, a memoir might recall what most citizens wished to forget. Some could not. Viet Nam veterans grew older, had children and, as if by some compulsion to pass on their stories, began to talk. In the spring of 1981 the "livingroom war" shows signs of becoming the tape-recorder...
...Tuesday all the hours were beginning to blur together. Heather was trying to revise her second chapter and type the third into the computer at the same time, but she seemed to be running on a treadmill. Her thesis adviser stopped by several times to wish her luck and check her final versions, and the look on his face appeared more and more dubious. After dinner that night, she wandered into UHS on impulse and had her blood pressure taken. It was up 20 points. A nurse told her to go to bed. She didn't. It was the fifth...
...after a while the numbers begin to blur, and the death tolls lose their human meaning. The blood will seem much redder if we look at the reports of actual atrocities committed by the El Salvadorean government and documented by a Congressional fact-finding mission. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Ma.), Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), and Rep. Robert Edgar (D-Pa.), obtained hundreds of first hand accounts of "murder, torture, rape, and the burning of villages and crops" by Government Security Forces. According to the United Press International...
...muddled programs because there are no clear objectives. Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling of Missouri, who hopes to establish later this year a bipartisan blue-ribbon committee on reorganization of the Government, believes that a new national consensus has been needed ever since the basic objectives and priorities began to blur about 15 years ago. That was the time, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing that increase in public alienation. "Lyndon Johnson forgot to ask for a tax increase to pay for the Viet Nam War," Boiling says wryly, "and that...