Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bevy of impressive talents like youth director Jamal Bryant has joined the staff. And the N.A.A.C.P. has recovered the impatient, insistent but always dignified voice that made it the most important force in the fight against segregation. As the new chairman of the board, Julian Bond, 58, declared in his keynote speech, "I promise you'll be reading about the N.A.A.C.P. because we are fighting for civil rights and not because we are fighting each other...
Together, the two share an almost palpable trust; the bond between the policemen seems more durable than ties of family. One is strong where the other is weak, and together they make a match for any crime ring in California. The Glover-Gibson partnership is also solid in less serious ways. Glover is a straight man of sorts to a more irrepressible Gibson, but both men have perfect timing when delivering the insulting, constant repartee that masks the deep affection between the two. Gibson and Glover turn the cops' bad habit of saving serious conversations for the middle of serious...
...with the one I grew up in. The murder in Jasper, Texas, of a black man who was dragged to his death by three white subhumans: 40 years ago, that town of 8,000--30% black--would have rallied round the subhumans. Today the mayor declared that the established bond between black and white would hold. And the dead man's family told opportunist politicians that he was not a national symbol...
...humorless, and now it's too sexy and self-centered. The ultimate goal of feminism is a world in which women can choose what to do and be. The most damage to feminism comes not from the media but from individual women who overlook the need to continue to bond and support one another in every aspect of their lives. BETH LERCH Los Angeles...
...done well--as the story of a sick man and his nurse. Now, to A Farewell to Arms and The English Patient, add another memorable star-crossed Red Cross romance: Thomas Moran's second novel, The World I Made for Her (Riverhead; 273 pages; $23.95), which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once) by a horrifically stubborn strain of chicken pox, the immobilized Blatchley has been rendered tongue-tied not by Cyrano-like shyness but by an emergency tracheotomy...