Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were so many clothes, so much washing interrupting my painting," she recalls. "I was just trying to turn a detriment to my advantage." A little glue, a little canvas, a little lint -- in time she began to regard it as "so painterly." Still, there was the artist's dilemma: "What did I want it to say for me? I was looking for strong social commentary. I didn't want it to be a decorative thing. And then, of course! It could speak for what it was. The work became much more three dimensional...
Home means no freedom; freedom means no home. That is the dilemma facing all the tumbledown souls who drift through the peeling Springsteen homes and long, open highways of Jayne Anne Phillips' fiction. Castoffs from the counterculture, sleeping on floors or living in cars, unsure of where they stand in time or space, few of them know how to keep jobs, let alone take care of themselves. Phillips' characters lack purpose and authority. Their world is fluid, but they do not quite go under. They simply float...
...which maintains a force of 40,000 troops in South Korea and regards Seoul as a strategically important ally, Chun's latest retreat from democratic reform presents a dilemma. Some Washington officials claim that the U.S. is unwilling to punish South Korea's political abuses because any action might weaken the country militarily or economically. Yet other observers of U.S. foreign policy are seriously wondering whether Washington's failure to take tougher stands against South Korea's government might itself be contributing to the country's underlying problem. Says Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz, chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs...
...analysis of power relations between men and women, between mother and child--as they are sedimented in grammars of address--and of the rhetorical assumptions of personhood contained within poems and Constitutional amendments offers no answer to the ongoing abortion dilemma among feminists. Rather, Johnson warns how the complex issues too easily become locked into the rhetorical limits of dead-end polemics. Her refusal to intervene between pro-life and pro-choice factions, and wish upon them "a single voice," offers intellectual self-questioning as an alternative to political violence...
When Carol Inkley went shopping for a new car earlier this year, she faced a supply-side problem: a pending divorce had left her with little to spend and nothing to trade in. Inkley, a Chesterfield, Mo., interior-design coordinator, solved her dilemma by signing a four-year auto lease that avoided the hefty down payment a normal car loan would have required. Cost of the lease: $239.04 a month. She drove home in a new white Honda CRX complete with automatic transmission, air conditioning and AM-FM radio...