Word: discordance
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...ranging from four to 30' in height. Reminiscent of skyscrapers or a series of musical notes, the sculpture would pay homage to the Boston skyline while greeting visitors with an illusion of syncopated harmony. But to Annissa Essaibi, president of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association, "100 Columns" represented discord more than harmony...
...path to the presidency remains constitutionally murky. First in line would be the first vice president, Francisco Tudela, who resigned last month following Montesinos?s return to Peru from a failed bid for asylum in Panama. But the legislature has not yet accepted Tudela?s resignation. Such discord among civilian politicians is just the sort of thing that gets the military a little edgy, and although its commanders released a statement at the weekend that they would support any constitutional change of power, there are a number of competing constitutional scenarios that remain to be decided...
...Census Bureau, 27% of American families with kids are headed by a single parent. "Family comedy," though, still carries overtones of the Ike years, when sitcoms like Father Knows Best defined the genre and American pop culture was supposed to promote stability, peace and the effacement of discord at any cost...
...dirty secret of a show like Titus is that discord is hilarious. You laugh because--well, what's the alternative? "People want something that reflects their lives," says creator-star Christopher Titus, who based the series on his autobiographical one-man stage show Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding. "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, Titus looks at how Titus has become his screwed-up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach...
...feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human desire to belong--to a place or a people--and the fratricidal discord between American-born and West Indian blacks...