Word: communally
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Tremblay's dialogue is compressed yet disjointed. Though the individual conversations proceed chronologically, they are interrupted by the others, as if the family had a communal memory and understanding. There is more than a suggestion that Serge is this center, and that the set represents his mind: The bed and Nicole make up the core of Serge's world which is in turn fractured by the individual needs and desires of the others...
Loehmann's rigorously no-frills outlets carry no shoes or lingerie. Credit cards are not accepted, nor are returns. Salespeople provide little service. Dressing areas are communal, mirrored rooms with harsh lighting, places of pandemonium on weekends. Women enter, check modesty at the door, and frantically try on designer fashions with no labels but with thinly disguised codes on price tags: RL is Ralph Lauren, GEB Geoffrey Beene, BLA Bill Blass...
...flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned D'Aubuisson's charges that Samuel Maldonado, leader of the 100,000-strong Salvadoran Communal Union, a peasant organization that has close ties to U.S. labor groups, had collaborated with leftist guerrillas...
MISURA represents the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. The coalition and a second Indian faction, known as MISURASATA, have opposed efforts by the Sandinistas to turn communal Indian property into state holdings and to relocate entire villages. Says MISURA Leader Steadman Fagoth Mullen "We want to be left alone." The group draws recruits from among the 13,500 Indians living across the border in Honduran refugee camps, but, according to Fagoth, his insurgents are so ill-equipped that they must go into battle with as little as 30 rounds of ammunition...
...what I want is for police departments to honestly appraise their use of force, apprise communities and neighborhoods of how it is used, formulate its future use in consultation with neighborhoods and communities and do this within the context of constitutional safeguards protecting personal liberty and with concern for communal peace and security...