Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often, the news from black America seems to be all bad: crime, broken families, failing schools, abject hopelessness. Yet amid the bleak circumstances that envelop so much of the African-American community, a singularly heartening piece of good news has been overlooked. Black artists are now embarked on one of the most astonishing outbursts of creativity in the nation's history. Never before -- not even during the legendary great Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s or the bristling Black Arts Movement of the '60s -- have black artists produced so much first-rate writing, music, painting and dance. For them...
Worse by far was the terror and panic inside the ship, as passengers fled their cabins and jammed into corridors and stairways. "A woman had broken her legs and begged others to give her a life jacket," said Kent Harstedt, a Swedish passenger, "but it was the law of the jungle." Andrus Maidre, a 19- year-old Estonian passenger, said the old and the very young had little chance. "Some old people had already given up hope and were just sitting there crying," he said. "I stepped over children who were wailing and holding onto the railing." Very...
...like that," he replied, simplistically yet eloquently, speaking volumes of feeling. A perfect rejoining of broken father-son relationships, baseball, sports, life, the cosmos...
...people were really hurt emotionally last year and friendships were broken because of all the mudslinging," Cole said...
...Duvalier divorced him, taking the children and a large chunk of the assets. Duvalier quickly ran through his remaining funds -- once estimated at $400 million -- and now lives with his mother Simone, 80, in a scruffy villa with no telephone (cut off for unpaid bills) and a broken wire fence surrounding an unkempt garden. Last week he disappeared for parts unknown...