Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Breath in the Wind...
...Chicago, Jordan's return has been positively biblical. He has been mentioned in the same breath as Moses (leading the Bulls out of the wilderness), Jesus (second coming) and the prodigal son. In the days before he announced, "I'm back," mothers and fathers would bring their infants to the Berto Center in suburban Deerfield, Illinois, where the Bulls practice, just to see Jordan's red Corvette. And it wasn't just Chicago that was devoted to Michael. When the news of the return of Qiao Dan (pronounced tshoo dun) was announced over loudspeakers at an army basketball game...
...ultimate urban horror. Anonymous, malevolent packages planted by any of the thousands of subway riders and set to kill huge numbers of passersby indiscriminately. The prospective victims are temporarily captives in a subterranean steel and concrete execution chamber, and they could have died by simply by drawing a breath. The dead would have been selected by sheer chance, depending on petty details like which commuter was on schedule and who had dawdled over breakfast and taken a later train...
...Nelson, a New York-based American, portrays a ferociously articulate family of Britons who live in various parts of the U.S. Assembled in a Connecticut farmhouse in the aftermath of their father's suicide, they ostentatiously deplore the English penchant for putting down America, then in the next breath rail at their big, dumb, PC-riddled adopted homeland...
...from one of her father's war buddies. Sitting on an airplane before take-off, McSweeney recites a line modified from the Song of Solomon, "Arise, my love, and fly again." As a child, her whole family would link hands and say this; now she mutters it under her breath when she flies alone. "I think it's embarrassing every now and again," she admits, but adds that she would not feel comfortable flying without reciting...