Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Existing gun regulations were loose enough to allow the needless deaths of over 20,000 Americans last year. Congress, were it brave enough to ignore the campaign money the NRA waves, would see that gun laws should be strengthened. A mandatory federal waiting period and licensing of firearms--especially easily concealable handguns--would better keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, without violating anyone's rights...
...fascinating veins that crossed it like mysterious rivers; I fitted my attention exactly to the ridgings of her knuckles, the wedding ring, her pale, flat nails." Not a false note sounds in these recordings of sorrow and sudden grace. Deborah Eisenberg's characters are a unique amalgam of the brave and antic; they regard difficulties seriously, but not themselves. In their perceptions and urban locutions, they might be the daughters of J.D. Salinger's women, the new Phoebes and Frannys, distressed, astonished and ultimately strengthened by the bewildering demands of contemporary life...
Every night this month, a group of brave seniors are opening up their rooms and liquor cabinets to the Class of 1986 as part of a round of senior activities leading up to commencement...
Perhaps Fellini, who like his stars is in his 60s, is copping a generational plea: "Our kitsch is better than your kitsch." Maybe he means for us to see the faltering but brave Amelia and Pippo as surrogates for himself, still worthy of sober interest, maybe even moral admiration, although the headlines now go to younger directorial stars. Certainly he insists on pumping out more of the "Felliniesque," his trademark blend of the grotesque and the surreal, than we need to get his point that TV is vulgar and coarsening. More moving is his presentation of two carefully imagined archetypes...
Coles has a nettlesome habit of segueing into awe at the exact moment that analysis is desperately needed. He devotes 22 pages to a stoical chicano girl named Marty, whose father and brother were killed by a drunk driver. Writing of Marty and another brave child, Coles declares, "One can only try to fathom how children like those two have managed so far to do as they've done. One thereby nudges theory toward human experience, hoping that the latter brings the former to life, and the former helps arrive at a persistent, comprehensible aspect of the human scene...