Word: destructing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constantly striving to free himself from the power of his creator, slowly goes insane. A large part of the appeal of this play is the perverse joy of watching the narrator self-destruct. And since "YER MAN" is part of Nash, in a sense we are watching Nash self-destruct...
When communism began to self-destruct last year, TV journalists did more than just report the phenomenon -- they participated in it. The presence of foreign cameramen seemed to embolden the demonstrators. Once the Chinese authorities decided to shed blood, they literally pulled the plug on television coverage. Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu also kept the press out of his country while he slaughtered its citizens. Not until TV aired footage of his lifeless body were many Rumanians convinced that the despot had really been executed...