Word: disunion
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...time of great disunion. The country was plagued by an intractable dispute between two snarling factions over a proposition that threatened to alter the balance of power in Congress by granting one faction additional representation. The other faction, naturally, would have none of it. The only way to keep the peace was to grant it additional representation as well...
...couldn't help enjoying a jolt of schadenfreude. The couple, who wed after dating only three months, had spent the past few years denying rumors of their breakup; they even sued the Star for a June 1997 article that predicted a nasty divorce. As the ripples of this disunion wafted through Hollywood last week, Wall Street received a tremor: Planet Hollywood, the publicly held company partly owned by Willis and Moore, fell 1/16 of a point on the day after the couple's announcement, even though the Dow was up. GO MAGIC...
...midst of Soviet disunion, what's going to happen to the nukes? Money- hungry military officers in some hot spots are already renting armored personnel carriers and other weaponry to local militias with turf to protect. But they could probably get much steeper prices from more ambitious troublemakers abroad, especially those looking for really hard-to-find goods. "In this country at this time," says a Soviet historian, "anything can happen. If you can come up with a guarantee of $2 million, hard currency, I wager that I can put you in touch with somebody who would sell...
...political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, points out that the losers in past elections have often blamed the electorate. In their despair they have decided that the voters were "a bunch of jerks," not "the good peasants and yeomen" of yore. This time, says Ranney, the sense of disunion may be greater than ever. The group of inbred Democrats who have controlled the thought and mechanics of official Washington for so long is exquisitely geared to "issues," having encyclopedic knowledge of programs and laws but limited sensitivity to the intangibles of leadership, like boldness and enthusiasm, that cannot...
...good play should grow into a gestalt; Rimers remains an assortment of pretty parts. The metaphors of disunion in Rimers' lighting and staging, as dramatically effective as they are, serve finally to reflect the essential fragmentation of Wilson's script. The actors play their parts with conviction, but you're never really sure just what it is that they're convinced of. The audience sees a good production, but never discovers why Rimers is there in the first place...