Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sidetracked, Clinton calls his lawyers constantly, the intense voice unmistakable. What surprises his lawyers at the other end of the line is the way Clinton jumps into the conversation as if in midsentence: explaining the latest piece to emerge from the grand jury or the deposition, putting it in context, dissecting its implication. Last Thursday the President was hyperventilating about a minor Associated Press story that suggested a Kenneth Starr Whitewater witness might be financially connected to the archconservative Pittsburgh philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife. "The President is completely and totally obsessed with the intricate details of the story...
...biography of Radclyffe Hall, Sally Cline has decided not to take the easy path, and steps away from making The Well the central focus of Hall's life. Instead, Cline takes the long view, exploring Hall's entire life from beginning to end within the context of the history in which she lived her life and wrote her books. The result is an exhaustively informative, if occasionally tedious, literary biography. It takes a lot of effort to get through it, but the life it explores is a genuinely fascinating...
...great strengths of Cline's book is that very richness of context: in her hands, our journey through Radclyffe Hall's life becomes a journey through half a century of political, literary, and cultural history. The picture we derive from her biography is that of a writer who, far from existing for only a single moment of historical controversy, lived richly and fully--and in very interesting times. We whirl with the young Hall through the wild nightlife of Jazz Age London, watch her early involvement with the women's suffrage movement, and chafe with her when, at the outbreak...
...cause. But she was prepared to put her private self on view, and, once it was all out in the open, refused ever to back down from her stance or to try to hide what she was. Cline, in placing Hall in her larger cultural and literary context, has also succeeded in showing us what an extraordinary act of courage it was for this women, at this time, to make the choice she did. The book is a difficult one, and it does not succeed on all levels. But in this at least it mirrors its subject: the life...
...Afro-Cuban flavor permeates Rubalcaba's playing, placing his virtuoso stylings in an effective and distinctive context. This world music influence is most evident on the Spanish-style waltz "La Pasionaria," but is apparent throughout the album's six tracks. Often there is a dance-like and regular feel to his solo lines, accompanied by percussive comping; other times he will simply transplant wholly Cuban figures into his improvisations...