Word: dimensionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So the Stepford Carl, once activated, will speak. And then the caller will speak, and the caller's words will likewise be frozen in time, and both of those small ancillary selves will lie side by side for a little while in their other dimension. Words can be chilled...
The move by the union came after a late night bargaining session with the school committee where teachers rejected a proposal. Union negotiators contend that the school committee added a new dimension to negotiations by proposing a decrease in health benefits.
In Wilde's version, however, the country is every bit as artificial as London town itself. By layering irony upon irony, Wilde gives dimension to what would otherwise be rather simplistic humor and saves the piece from mere triviality.
WHEN SAMUEL BECKETT jolted the theatrical world several decades ago with Waiting for Godot, he unleashed a whole new dimension in existential dramas dealing with death. Instead of being represented by the conventional dagger and funeral scenes to which audiences had become so comfortably accustomed, death became something less frightening...
The second reaction is less naive and, thankfully, more common. Ironically, to my mind, at least, it is responsible for more deaths. It realizes that no sane individual in the North or South of Ireland believes that it is in Ireland's interest to prostitute herself to the men of...