Word: chaotically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most of these artifacts date from the 12th dynasty, long after the kingdom once ruled by Snefru disintegrated in an era of famine and unrest. It was during this chaotic period that the first great wave of looting and tomb robbing ruined much of Egypt's historical treasures. The rulers of the Middle Kingdom tried to restore law and order, but the mystical union of nature, religion and state that marked the Old Kingdom never returned...
...life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience...
...LONE STAR: In life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience. No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer1s movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects, says TIME's Richard Schickel. There are no explosions here, just...
Here, on the other hand, it often seems that all eight million of your fellow citizens are in your face, all the time. I thought Cambridge's streets were chaotic until I realized that, in Harvard Square, the drivers (grudgingly) stop when you run across the street; on Third Avenue, where I walk to work each morning, it's a game of chicken at every corner, as crowds of business executives edge out into traffic and frenzied cabbies bear down on them, determined not to miss the light. Coming from a place where 30-minute, five-mile drives are common...
Good choice. Chaotic is how things must feel right now at the White House, as each day brings another shot over Whitewater and the FBI files. But the explanation doesn't require much scientific theory. For months Clinton has been waiting for the G.O.P. contender who would turn the '96 race into a real battle. It looks as though he has found him at last--and it's not Bob Dole. Every serious matter bedeviling the President has Kenneth Starr connected to it somewhere. And the special prosecutor who once predicted that his investigations would be wrapped up well before...