Word: connect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Economy. One by one he ticked off the signals: payrolls falling, investments soft, inventories high. "The economic indicators suggest to me that I may be living with my worst fears,'' he told them. "If you have a recession in 1995 or '96, the voters are likely to connect that economic event to the most notable political event in their recent life. Quite frankly, that is the new Republican majority...
Cyberspace has the power to connect people, But it also has the power to drive people farther apart. it heightens the split between the savvy young and the technophobic old, between men and women, between the rich and the computerless poor...
...This is an effort to connect the service action of the student to a reflective component," Coles said recently in an interview. "We also do some reading which we hope will help them put in context some of the experiences they go through, some of them not always easy...
Ramesses is also much celebrated outside of Egypt, though many Westerners probably don't connect the name with the fame. In Exodus he is simply known as "Pharaoh," and Shelley's poem Ozymandias, inspired by the fallen statues at the Ramesseum, his mortuary temple at Thebes, takes its title from the Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually...
Individually, the cast is solid. But by the third act and hour, their inability to fully connect with each other makes the play's building tensions difficult to maintain. The final scene, in which Blanche struggles with the other characters to hold onto her fantasies, suffers from this tendency. We have never really believed anyone on stage is inhabiting the same world to begin with...