Word: communally
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...border, its fighters can easily fire into Israeli towns. Border infiltrations are another risk. Emblazoned in the collective memory of Misgav Am, a kibbutz that juts like a polyp into Lebanese territory, is the night in 1980 when Palestinian terrorists slipped across the border and took over the communal dormitory where local children slept, shooting to death the village secretary as well as a soldier and crushing the head of a weepy two-year-old boy. "Hizballah is responsible for our future now," says the current secretary, Hanan Rubinski. "We're waiting for them to decide...
...bottles of water to battle dehydration, which can be aggravated by ecstasy. Attendees sometimes dress in layers so clothes can be stripped off if the going gets hot, and blue and green flexible glow sticks are popular. One sound you'll hear if the party's going right: a communal whoop of approval when the deejay starts riding a good groove. "The first rock-'n'-roll shows were dance events," says 6th Element promoter Matt E. Silver, who has worked with best-selling electronica acts such as Chemical Brothers and Prodigy. "Now it's about deejay culture." In the movie...
...memorials are not only education sites; they are also, at a primal level, burial places--"a communal site of memory," says Linenthal. The chairs at the Oklahoma City Memorial contain what is often called the presence of absence. To Linenthal, the new memorials are "places of civic transformation" as well; one should come away changed. And they are sites of public protest, "where one cries out in anguish against the event, to keep it in living memory...
...legal red-light districts, the siesta, pretty money--we get this. Sixteen men and women maroon themselves for as long as 39 days on an isolated tropical island, building driftwood huts and lunching on rats. Meanwhile, 10 folks agree to spend as long as three months sequestered, sleeping in communal bedrooms and living without TV or newspapers in a house that lacks only pencil shavings on the floor to qualify as a human hamster cage--all for cash prizes, under constant camera surveillance for a prime-time audience...
...favorite lines of speculation comes from Harvard historian and economist David Landes, who, after much subtle analysis (of the low rate of Argentine savings, for example, or the intense communal focus of the Japanese), returns unexpectedly to a conclusion of such radiant common sense that one wants to put him up for the Nobel Prize. His conclusion: optimism pays...