Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shepard's dramas of blasted American lives, the terror never stays so politely out of sight--it's usually smacking you in the face. Buried Child, first produced in 1978, opens with a marital conversation conducted across a chasm. Dodge, a foghorn-voiced geezer (a hilarious James Gammon), sits nearly immobile on a couch, exchanging shouts with his wife (Lois Smith), who spends most of the first act offstage. One grown son (Terry Kinney) shuffles in and out with armfuls of corn; another (Leo Burmester) stomps around on a false leg and terrorizes his father by snipping his hair while...
...Distinction" is a monthly campus publication, and since the O.J. Simpson murder trial, race and justice (or the lack of it) have become inextricably linked words. In many ways, of course, the omnipresence of racial discussion in American media is testimony to the importance of the growing social chasm separating whites and blacks; it is proof of the problem of black/white relations (demonstrated as clearly at Harvard as anywhere else). But two things seem to be happening concerning these popular words: a cashing in on their market appeal and a desensitization to the issue at hand...
...once again. Until now, those who hold power have refused to share responsibility for the country's descent into chaos, or to acknowledge the deep roots of Islamic fundamentalism in Algerian society. And if there is to be peace in Algeria, secularists and Islamists will have to bridge the chasm that lies between them. The election seems unlikely to provide such a solution and, tragically, may prove little more than a momentary pause in a long and bloody...
Discussing the role that race played in the trial, Cochran said that contrary to what has been suggested, his closing argument didn't drive a wedge between the races, it simply revealed the chasm that already exists...
...little the Civil Rights movement has achieved in changing our attitudes about one another. To listen to Louis Farrakhan is to hear the use of the words "the white man" when referring to the rest of America. So-called "leaders" like Farrakhan only hinder efforts to bridge the perceived chasm among the races...