Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...competition is broken into two divisions, with each division sailing a total of 12 races. Every boat is given a point equal to the place of its finish in the race. At the competition's conclusion the points are totaled, with the team with the lowest number of points winning...
Gerry's class has found many artifacts of 18th century life, including pipe stems, wine bottle shards, broken ceramics, nails and animal bones...
...capital. Beauty shops and bookstores are burned; cafes, stationery stores, pharmacies, a baby shop with infant supplies and toddler toys, accountants' offices--all are a shambles. Desks and office chairs are overturned; drawers with papers are strewn about. Glass storefronts are shattered, window blinds protruding onto the street like broken ribs. There is no evidence of bombs or missiles: almost every roof is intact. The signs of rage and destruction--before the war, this was a city of 250,000 people, mostly Albanians, and the devastation is city-wide--evoke tornadoes and hurricanes...
...Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support. He needs it. The guy looks like the most bitter and broken-down thirtysomething not to have worked for the Clinton Administration...
...reality." Or perhaps it's that men's magazines and TV shows are simply offering up images of masculinity that stand in high relief to the ones recent pop culture has provided: the wimpy and neurotic males on Friends, the fey brothers Crane on Frasier, the emotionally broken Detective Sipowicz of NYPD Blue, the guys in the movie Swingers, whose nostalgia for Rat Pack swagger never really expresses itself in anything beyond a taste for suits and cocktails...