Word: chasms
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...palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...
...America's legendary undecided voters were watching Tuesday night, this yawning chasm should help sway a few votes; maybe a couple of them actually made up their minds last night. (At this point, of course, the "undecideds" have gotten more attention from the national media than the candidates themselves, and none of them seem particularly interested in abandoning the limelight or taking a moment away from their CNN/NBC/ABC interviews to make a decision...
...Scratch the surface of equanimity, however, and you uncover a basic philosophical chasm: Bush wants to keep his hands out of pretty much every national and international policy issue, while Gore wants to immerse himself up to his elbows...
...humane approach to the protests, but they also came onto the scene bearing far less baggage than the LAPD toted into Monday night's confrontation. There is a palpable distrust of police here, stemming back decades, and the ongoing investigation into corruption charges have only served to broaden the chasm between many Angelenos and their ostensible protectors...
...There is] a growing chasm between 67 Winthrop St. [the offices of HUDS,] and the front line of the residential dining program," Atkinson says...