Word: decentering
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...that Cuban survival is no longer at risk, frustration is rising as people seek something more: the end of rationing, decent apartments they do not have to share, jobs that pay adequate salaries. Discontent has not driven Cubans into the streets though: they are too timid or too fearful of an unknown alternative for that. They still do not harbor the loathing for their leaders that finally drove East Europeans into open revolt. "Cubans are always waiting, for someone from the state, from outside, from God, to change their circumstances," says Rolando Suarez, director of the Catholic charity Caritas. "People...
...conversation, one gets hints. Decent, conventional jobs are rare enough for a 49-year-old former street person who makes a normal presentation. But Eighner has other strikes against him: his weight; his swollen ankle, which makes it difficult to move about easily; his inability to drive a car; and his lack of the "right clothes" for a "straight...
...innocent pleasures into a kind of cultural kudzu, filling our cable channels with games and game "analysis," our urban centers with stadiums and our brains with forgettable factoids about Terrell Davis' shoulder and Brett Favre's third-down conversions. Once there were two seasons and two sports, with a decent interval between, during which courtships occurred and family members became reacquainted. In that distant era, bars were appropriately morose settings for the serious contemplation of fate and its ironies, not frenetic assemblages of monitors bringing us football in August and iron-man competitions from the antipodes. Guys who liked sports...
...mention straight plays--remember them?) to compete. "The danger with $20 million musicals," says veteran producer Emanuel Azenberg, "is that you have to run for 28 years, have five companies around the world and play to the lowest common denominator." Azenberg's Side Show was one of two decent little musicals (the other was Triumph of Love) that recently closed, unable to keep pace with the fast crowd. (Azenberg is mulling the unusual step of reopening Side Show in April, in hopes of snaring some Tony nominations...
...whether one could support your weight, and you don't remember much from physics, but at least you'll be taking Science A next semester, that is, if you pass your Foreign Cultures exam tomorrow, but you need at least a B+ on this exam if you want a decent grade in the class...and then you turn the clock around again and notice that it's 5:30 a.m.. You close your eyes again, and the cycle repeats itself. You have forgotten how to sleep...