Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Replay it once more. A close second to the Russians after the compulsories, the U.S. women's gymnasts had moved into first during Tuesday night's finals on the strength of six nearly flawless performances on the uneven parallel bars and another six strong ones on the balance beam. They...
Disaster sends us looking for the devil. As the aftermath of Flight 800 showed, it is a terrible anxiety, a kind of low-grade moral infection, not to know exactly what evil you're up against.
The late afternoon sky is as solemn as it was in the morning. The town is quieter than yesterday. Tonight people will begin to wean themselves from the disaster reports and tune in to the excessively happy opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta. Flipping between channels, they will occupy...
ROGER ROSENBLATT has recently returned to TIME after an eight-year absence. We like to think of it as a mere hiatus--although while he was away he did manage to win Peabody and Emmy awards for his work on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on pbs, write and perform two one...
Perversely, though, a stray thought suggests it might matter to them--could they know about it--that their death had the prestige of a great disaster, like the Titanic, say, or even of Lockerbie. More stature in that--more fame, more myth--than in a commuter flight downed by wind...