Word: disquieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Death of a Salesman or, even more strongly, his film work in Straw Dogs as a quiet man driven beyond endurance into mayhem. The show never stints on the virulent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare's world, although Hall employs subtle staging and lighting cues to mollify modern spectators' disquiet at the injustice of the ending. The production is under discussion for transfer to the U.S. As with London's other pair of current triumphs, it cannot come too soon...
Venezuela had not seen such mayhem since 1958, when a popular insurrection toppled dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez and ushered in democracy. Overnight, Venezuelans faced martial-law restrictions, including a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. When the riots ended, severe food shortages in the capital threatened to stir more disquiet. The most important victim of the upheaval was probably President Perez himself, who had begun his second term in office (the first was from 1974 to 1979) with a huge margin of popularity. That goodwill was suddenly forgotten when the rattled leader failed to stop the violence with a rambling...
Thus ended a record of decisions that left disquiet on right and left. "There's some kind of transition going on," says Ricki Seidman of liberal lobbying group People for the American Way. "There is a lot of fuzziness ^ around the edges." Says Daniel Popeo of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation: "We're looking for the Supreme Court to answer some very hard questions that have to be confronted directly...
...there is the rub. Fame and infamy also turn out to be rewarded in the same ways. That is the source of disquiet, the secret price of living in a society that has precise epithets for men and women who sell their bodies but none for those who sell their souls...
Underlying the soap opera is an essay on the seductive comforts of a conformist society and the way in which free thinkers inescapably disquiet the people around them. When the pastor speaks of faith, he means order, moral certitude, freedom from doubt. To him there is no deeper satisfaction than to be regarded as normal. His attitude echoes the values of a police state; when Road opened at Yale in 1984, then more effectively at Britain's National Theater in 1985, the pastor seemed a humbug, professing affection for an old friend while ruthlessly trying to have...