Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tragedy is inescapabble in Annie Proulx's unforgiving environments: the simple concurrences of wind and rain, cold and distance, render experiences unthinkably abhorrent and the crushingly sad not only possible but inevitable. She locates her stories, like her novels, in places where the difficulty of survival makes people poor and hard: Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Proulx's first collection of short stories in more than ten years, echoes 1988's collection Heartsongs in its unwavering gaze at human tragedy in nature's liminal spaces, where no quarter is asked and none given by protagonist, nature or narrator. It is this...
...Street, Wall Street looked to Rubin. Clinton, who has proved repeatedly that he knows the electorate better than any of us, knew Rubin's value when he begged his weary cabineteer to ride out impeachment -- a sour stock market was always more dangerous than Ken Starr. And with the Cold War over and the biggest threat to American freedom no longer Russian nukes but Russian rubles, it was Rubin who stepped into the Asian flames with the U.S.-led IMF at his side. Foreign policy (at least until recently) slipped from State's purview into Treasury's, and while Madeleine...
...lounged in the grass in front of Lionel Hall, for hours before and after dinner. She dragged me, practically kicking and screaming, onto the T for the first time. Her family took me in as another daughter. They drove us to Salisbury Beach, where I shivered with cold and yelled about the value of southern Texas waters as she and her brothers happily swam, polar bear-like, around me. We rented "So I Married an Axe Murderer" more times than I care to admit, and would frighten tourist groups in the Yard by reciting (loudly) all of Mike Myers' "Woman...
...many whimpers, in a liar's presidency and on the ghastly fields of the former Yugoslavia. But it's almost impossible to exaggerate how deeply Americans felt this destiny in the period covered by this show, roughly from the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt to the outbreak of the cold war. And they had reason to believe...
Whole grains, of course, are not the only source of fiber, vitamins or complex carbohydrates. Don't forget your beans, peas and other legumes (rinsing canned beans in cold water helps cut down on gas). And as nutritious as these food groups are, they won't protect you from patently self-destructive behavior--like smoking, overdrinking or leading a sedentary life. But that's food for another column...