Word: chasms
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...like preparing food (or KP duty)-as an example of paying other people to do what Americans should do for themselves. And while the all-volunteer U.S. Army is a far cry from the barbarian mercenaries that Rome eventually used to fill out its legions, there is a dangerous chasm growing between the U.S. military-a subculture with a bracing value system emphasizing service, discipline and common purpose-and the slovenly culture at large. "In my Princeton class of '56, 450 of the 750 graduates served in the military," says Charles Moskos of Northwestern University, a military historian. "Elvis Presley...
...almost everything else in the country, China's legal system is in transition, buffeted by social changes sweeping the nation as it races toward economic modernity. There are many other areas of grave concern for Beijing: a ravaged environment, an inadequate health-care system, pervasive corruption and a widening chasm between the urban rich and rural poor, to name a few. But none is so visible a symbol of the dilemmas Beijing faces in coping with rapid change while at the same time preserving the country's tenuous social order-and the Communist Party's grasp on political power...
...Beyond the exertions of its storyline, The Banishment pries open, and stares boldly into, the chasm between male and female points of view- questions of love and trust, children and parenting. Men watching the film may find Vera's logic vague and infuriating; women may see her as the sensitive soul, and Alex as the dense husband who only thinks he cares for her. Perhaps Alex and Vera cannot see beyond their own needs. Perhaps no one can. In another movie about lost treasures, Charles Foster Kane offers a toast "to love on my own terms. Those are the only...
...Plausibility isn't the biggest challenge for the comic-book-movie fan base. Sentimentality is. An Ain't It Cool News review, supposedly written by the mother of a friend of AICN critic Moriarty, tosses Spidey 3 into the sar-chasm by informing us that "There's only about 25 minutes of actual Spidey footage in this movie - which makes all kinds of room for: That darling Mary Jane singing (two songs!). Peter Parker crying. Harry [Osborn] crying.... The Sandman crying. Eddie Brock crying. Mary Jane crying. Aunt May crying.... And yes, I might as well tell you, there...
...Europe was set to paper, on a continent unsettled but past the worst of the postwar period. The air was clear of sulfur if not spleen. Ireland was a small rock in the North Atlantic made relevant only by its cultural totems and ever increasing diaspora. In Berlin a chasm was opening up between East and West--the partition of lives, fortunes and fates. In the global struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., between freedom and totalitarianism, Europe was the fault line and the front line. Old Europe was being rebuilt to fight the next war: a battle...