Word: constantly
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...himself or the world around him. In his experience, change was often something to fend off; it was born of forces of nature--the weather changed in the 1930s, turned Kansas into powder--or forces of history, the war that injured him. He thinks of the U.S. as a constant, a fixed polar star of unchanged and unchanging values, like duty, honor, country, God. And he is proud of being much the same way. The places he knows best and loves most are not in flux; certainly not Russell, Kansas, not Bal Harbour, Florida, or even the U.S. Senate, where...
Clinton, a restless man defined by his energy and appetites, concludes that the only constant about life today is its unremitting motion. For his generation even the revolutions came from within and aren't over yet--civil rights, sexual freedom and now the one under way, driven by silicon and imagination. And so the beautiful thing about Clinton and the horrible thing about him too is that he moves with these changes almost daily, modulating his positions to fit the changing moods. If Dole, in his style and syntax, often seems strangely off-key, Clinton is a tuning fork, banging...
...borders a very fine line. To put it another way, in a California with Proposition 187, I would be forced to carry my so-called "papers" in my pocket at all times to prove my status. I, a Mexican-American U.S. citizen, would have to literally subject myself to constant verification of my "status," while other law-abiding citizens would go about their daily business unscathed. I would risk the misfortune of becoming "suspected," not because I'm un-American, mind you, but because of the color of my skin. It would be naive to think otherwise. If this...
...important backup to the cast is the simple yet elegant set, designed by David P. Gordon. All of the parts of the set in Part One are on wheels, allowing free movement and constant variation of the pieces. Most have swinging doors in them, reminiscent of the stages on which the puppets Punch and Judy traditionally perform...
Throughout the entire season the problem has remained constant and costly...