Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of the proposed solutions seems adequate, and a writer who chooses to confront the problem at all (I'll pass, thanks) may find that "he" and "his" are still the best. The problem stems from the fact that language, though evolving, remains in many ways stubborn and resistant to change. Linguists divide language's parts of speech into two classes: open and closed. Words in the open class are more flexible. Open nouns can adapt quite fluidly as culture changes, so that "Negro" shifts to "colored," then "black" and "African-American." Pronouns, however, belong to the closed class...
They hold vigils and teach-ins in Laramie, a town searching its soul, but some people climb the hill as if there is something to confront up there. They go to where a small basket of dry flowers hangs from the fence where Shepard, 21, was tied with rope, pistol-whipped and left in the cold. The visitors arrive in silence and leave in prayer, and the vigils go on--in Laramie, in Denver, in San Francisco, in Washington...
...Dena Nordstrom, a glamorous TV newswoman, people come in two varieties: corn pone and ruthless shark. The former populate the safe, static Missouri town of Dena's early youth, and the latter stalk the corridors of Manhattan, where career-obsessed Dena collapses from stress. She's forced finally to confront the hole at the middle of her existence: the unexplained disappearance of her mother when Dena was just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from the author...
...herchildhood among countless generations of twoprominent Boston Brahmin families, and to have ahell of a lot of fun while doing it. In thisprocess she latches on to the iconoclastic rebelfigure of her cousin, who tried to exorcise thesame Back Bay demons in his Life Studies asStuart is trying to confront in My First CousinOnce Removed. Stuart admits that she is notwriting a lyric masterpiece on par with any ofLowell's work, but manages in her genealogicalspelunking to be simultaneously funny, scathingand meditative about her life as a Winslow andLowell...
...unable to find his bag since his wife's death left him with a nasty case of writer's block. His nights are haunted by her ghost and visions of Sara Laughs, his summer home named after a "Negro" singer from the 1900s. Mike returns to that home to confront its secrets. An exorcism is in order, but that task is interrupted by Mike's battle to save a leggy blonde and her daughter from a ludicrously evil duo. Alas, the novel's spirits have more flesh than the humans, who barely qualify even as bags of bones...