Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iowa roadside, the old man chats with a pregnant runaway. For the girl, family is a prison, to be broken out of. The old man tells her that he used to give each of his kids a stick and say, "You break that." Of course they could. Then he'd tell them to tie some sticks in a bundle and try to break that. And they couldn't. "Then I'd say, 'That bundle--that's family.'" The next morning, the old man wakes up to find the girl gone, with the hint that she'll be returning home...
...unmarriage that seems to be capturing our attention. From American Beauty to the just released Bruce Willis-Michelle Pfeiffer movie, The Story of Us, the institution is being turned inside out, and it's not a pretty sight. To judge by these films, modern marriage involves a lot of broken china and busted expectations. While the current depictions of marriage may be overly pessimistic, each year half as many Americans get divorced as marry, and that's not a trifling statistic...
...intensity spikes at college-application time. The Zagers' dining room has been turned into a college war room, draped from top to bottom with brochures from schools like Syracuse University and the University of Colorado at Boulder and a poster-size chart drawn by Anne that lists 14 schools broken down into 22 categories such as class size and distance from home. Nearby sits a CD-ROM SAT study aid, Emergency Prep...
...Jesus Christ Superstar was set to be (and is) one of the major productions of the fall theater lineup--quite a goal for someone who had never broken a leg on a Harvard stage. Fowler has an extensive background in theater, but this is his first "official" show at Harvard. He's a singer at heart, and spent his freshman and sophomore years living it up with the Harvard Krokodiloes. The Kroks may not have been a seminary, but they sound divine (ahem) and no doubt prepared Jeff for Superstardom. His background as a vocalist also allows him to approach...
...against Chechen terrorists, fired missiles into a crowded market place and a maternity home in Grozny Thursday, reportedly killing more than 100 civilians. Although Moscow denied that any civilians had died in what it called a strike on an arms depot, Western reporters inside Grozny reported seeing scores of broken bodies strewn across the marketplace and the corpses of a large number of women and babies at the maternity home. The U.S. expressed concern over the civilian casualties, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held tense talks on the crisis at a meeting on aid with European Union leaders in Finland...