Word: chasms
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There are some early signs that the Democrats' strategy of broadening the gender gap into a chasm may be effective. In Virginia, after Ferraro's selection, women workers in day care centers began asking every parent to register and vote. In Alabama, Mondale campaign headquarters logged within hours 65 calls from women volunteers. But how widespread will this phenomenon be, how long will it last and to what ex- tent might it be offset by a backlash among men and more traditionalist women...
...between the IRS and the Newhouse appraisals stunned veteran estate planners. While assessments of properties left at death are frequently disputed, experts could not recall a chasm nearly as wide. "I have never seen such a large disparity," said one leading adviser. The unusual battle centers on the value of just ten shares of common stock that Newhouse owned. Although tiny in number, they were the only shares that carried the right to vote for directors of Advance Publications, the company that ran the newspapers and magazines. Ownership of the stock thus gave Newhouse total control of the publishing operations...
...pessimistic. A loss of extravagant dreams, one is told, entails a forfeiture of beauty, morals, of humanity itself. The presumption is that one finds happiness in looking forward to being happy, a rock on which many churches have built their following, but one which has often opened an unbridgeable chasm between hope and reality, thus assuring that anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present. Of all the reasons for antiutopianism, perhaps the strongest has been that former Utopian visions offered nothing but momentary heart leaps, that in hard-nosed modern terms, Utopias did not work...
...work adventurous but tolerable. But native ruburbanites, who believe that they are insulated from the excesses and evils of the larger world, view with ingrained suspicion the invasion of aging Volvos, Cuisinarts and the owners who accompany them. The bittersweet confrontations between natives and newcomers across the vanishing cultural chasm of ruburbia are turning some traditional American beliefs inside out. To a nation founded on waves of migration, ruburbia is an inevitable ripple...
...chasm between technique and emotion, however wide it is today, may be ultimately bridgeable; Japan, after all, has had only about a century to assimilate a radically foreign art form. But Western music faces other problems of a more practical nature. Because many Tokyo residents have long commutes to the central city, and because the city's buses, trains and subways stop running after midnight, concerts must begin early, about 7 p.m. But Japanese professionals often have little leisure time. Although some large companies buy blocks of tickets to distribute to their staffs, Japanese audiences are, by Western standards...