Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monday, July 1, 1996: "80[degrees]. Calm. Tried to sit outside a while. Impossible without a mask. What a life...
Wednesday, July 24, 1996: "Calm. 80[degrees]. 9:30 p.m. It would take two masks tonight...
Within the chicly amoral terms Berg sets--and brutally enforces--Diaz is curiously believable. So is the way in which stunned calm (we're going to get away with this thing) and hysteria (no, we're not) alternate among the well-played accidental criminals. We do find points of identification with them. And heaven knows, some of us are fed up to the teeth with movies glossily restating humane sentiments. Finally, though, Berg's relentless, youthfully enthusiastic assault on conventional pieties grows tiresome. And we begin to choke on laughter that was from the outset pretty dubious...
...while you're busy tending to your physical needs, don't neglect your spiritual ones. Many patients find that praying with a minister, priest, rabbi or other counselor before or after an operation provides an extra measure of calm--and gives them a head start on the road to healing...
Three virtues distinguish Munro's work. First, she packs more life into 30 pages than most novelists get into 300. And she does it writing about her native region, homely farm-town Ontario. Second, she moves her characters through time and space with the calm and precision of an air-traffic controller. Third, she writes mostly about women at turning points and points of no return...