Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production has made such an obscurely penetrating impression on the audience that McCann takes the opportunity to give the unfolding plot both personality and plausability. He sits and bitches through scenes, denying the younger generation that wants to come into its own while he guiltily broods on hisown climb to success. Master builder Solness' wife, played by Sharon Scruggs, successfully brings his overwhelming, depressing perspective into relief, showing her more personable side only away from his presence. Solness believes thathe has willed all his luck, but when we see that he does not even understand his own wife, the young...
...embarrassed if in the past she was foolish or hypocritical: in "Earthly Love" Gluck admits that she once avoided clear self-perception and claims, "And yet, within this deception,/true happiness occurred." In "Descent to the valley," she describes her old vision of life as an upward climb into light followed by a descent into uncertainty, and then states, "I have found it otherwise...
...devourthat, "You have no idea how silly it is to be abad wolf. Were it not for Aesop, we would sit onour hind legs and gaze at the sunset. I like to dothis very much." After this irony, Herbertcompounds the effect with a ladder which we allought to climb and then kick out from beneath us:"Don't follow the wolf, dear children. Don'tsacrifice yourselves to the moral...
...used a series of graphs to illustrate the slowdown in the Russian economy and outline the steps he believes could help the country climb out of its decline...
...things look bad for the A.M.A., they've turned positively bleak for a lot of doctors. Managed care has slashed revenue as overhead continues to climb. Physicians have to see more patients in less time. Nurses and pharmacists are poaching on their territory. Bureaucrats second-guess their decisions. Is it any wonder that union membership and disability claims are soaring among doctors? Or that more and more have started moonlighting outside of medicine to supplement their income...