Word: chasms
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...Height of a transparent-floored walkway being constructed over the Grand Canyon, which will allow tourists to peer into the chasm below...
...Despite the rhetorical chasm, protestors on either side had much in common. They shared the stifling heat, they listened to the parents of the fallen, they prayed, they sang, they drank thousands of bottles of water, they ate free barbecue and bought fifty cent chocolate covered cupcakes on main street. There was even the odd ecumenical note on a bumper sticker: "God Bless Everyone-no exceptions...
Nearly all great American plays are about families. The comedies, like You Can't Take It with You, celebrate the ability of disparate relatives to unify against the outside world. The tragedies, like A Long Day's Journey into Night, mourn the often unbridgeable chasm between intimacy and true affection. Sam Shepard, the most protean of active American playwrights, has written about revolution and land reform and organized crime and the decline of the West (in both the Spenglerian and the John Wayne senses), but his laconic truisms sound most universal when he focuses on the tightly confined agonies...
Arms-control Adviser Paul Nitze is the most intriguing member of the summit bullpen. Nitze, 78, a white-haired, spry member of the old postwar foreign policy establishment, has been dubbed "the Silver Fox" for his wily bureaucratic skills. If anyone can find a way to bridge the chasm between the U.S. and the Soviet arms proposals, it is Nitze. The arms-control veteran, however, has been tagged by many Reaganauts as an accommodationist for his willingness to work out a deal...
...Kapur intends the audience to draw global parallels. The "water rats" can be street kids from Bombay, Rio, even London. Paradise-club patrons are sex tourists. The upper-lower divide is the chasm between First and Third Worlds. Kapur the director is making a film written by Kapur the economist. "Bombay puts it all together, the contrast, the contradictions, in a way that you never have to think about in London or New York," he says. "And that's what the film will...