Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...story of Arcadia is, like most Stoppard plots, hard to summarize in much less than the three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story focuses on a startlingly gifted 13-year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating...
...body of a woman, bloated with decay. She had a purple rose tattooed on her left wrist. Another tattoo, a cross of leaves, adorned her hip. Rifkin admitted to picking up the woman -- a prostitute, he said matter- of-factly -- in Manhattan the previous week. She got into his mother's car. They had sex. He strangled her. Now he was on his way to Republic Airport in East Farmingdale to dispose of her corpse...
...liked the Whitney Biennial, you may like "Aperto 93." Some of its 13 curators, like the American Jeffrey Deitch, are in fact dealers -- a further development of Postmodernist art ethics. Its title, "Emergency," signals that, like the Whitney fiasco, it will "address the issues" of sexism, racism, environmental decay, the drainage of psychosocial space from modern life, the hegemony of mass media and so forth...
...still worry about job loss, educational decay, the poor, crumbling public schools. We still worry about racial division, urban blight and anti-gay attitudes. And now we worry about paying the bills, too. We worry about the long-term economics ability of the nation and its ability to finance the programs we want. We worry about crime and drugs. In the end, it is Bill Clinton who seems to understand these worries best. At base, we know we share Clinton's principles...