Word: brows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole does not win the Republican nomination, he will die a horrible political death. We will see him vainly thrashing around in his last strongholds--the Bible Belt and the isolated pockets of the country where fundamentalism and fanaticism still rear their low brow heads. At campaign rallies, prayer breakfasts and fund raising dinners, he will constantly draw attention to his gnarled fist, until even his most ardent supporters desert him, disgusted by his shameless antics...
...three thirty in the morning before the commanding presence of an ancient pagan god stood sohdly on the ground, its nose perfectly chiselled and its heavy-set brow looming over the small men at its feet. The Faster Island god, weighing in at around the mass of a small car, was encased in ice and anchored to the ground. Cries of victory and epiphany flooded the night air and the creators, about half a dozen of them, sat on the ground and looked up in exhausted awe. The thing they created was greater than any of them...
...obstetrician clipping a baby's navel cord..." But at other moments Davis lapses into tiresome literary tics, for example, the Amazing, All-In-One Speech Formula: within a few pages, we see people pleading, muttering, snapping, intervening, erupting, venturing, uttering in horror (a personal favorite), inserting furrowing brow in non-comprehension, half-gasping, rebutting, speaking sotto voce (a diving officer, no less), barking, snorting, and chirping...
Durang doesn't try to rationalize the paradoxes of his work, which can be at once high-brow and happily vulgar, at once a send-up of the literary canon and an addition to that canon. He acknowledges, too, that there is a double edge to his satire of societal institutions, a vilification belying a genuine disappointment in their failures. The measly contradictions of his plays, says Durang, come naturally and reflect the impulsiveness of his creative process. "I start off with the rules to a particular universe, which are really crack-pot. I just sort of expect people...
...MONTANA'S CONGRESSMAN, I WANT TO alert your readers to a crisis concerning our Western land that your report only touched on. America already is over the brow of its last hill. Few wild places remain, and the competition for the public's land is growing and becoming dangerously fierce. Here in Washington, America is faced with the most anti-environmental Congress of our lifetime. Resource-extraction industries, foreign and domestic, are writing the legislation to weaken laws that have protected our land, air and water. We Montanans are proud of living in the "last best place...