Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tiny bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny, to Indonesia's giant flying fox, with wingspans of nearly 6 ft. Many bats feed on insects, while others prefer fruit, nectar or pollen. A few feast on fish, frogs, rodents and, yes, blood. Contrary to legend, however, vampire bats, which dwell in Latin America, suck the blood of grazing cattle and horses, not sleeping humans...
None of this is to excuse Susan Smith's crime. But if we're going to dwell on her case for anything other than voyeuristic thrills, we have to forsake the easy, self-distancing explanations like "evil" and acknowledge that the unthinkable is always lurking within the familiar. That the "love" we endlessly celebrate can be a source, sometimes, of endless sorrow...
This is the primal theme -- rying to bring the dead back to life- - that has preoccupied Casper's executive producer, Steven Spielberg, in E.T. and Poltergeist, Always and Jurassic Park. The new film is sprightly enough to conceal its subtext from censorious politicians. But children, who dwell in fear at least as much as in innocence, may get the message: that it would be cool, bitchin', totally awesome to join the Dead Kids Society...
...death. There is not, nor will there ever be, a bill or verdict powerful enough to undo the spectacular crime committed in Oklahoma City. But it is naive and irresponsible for our media and our political leaders to fail to address the substantive reasons for the bombing, rather than dwell on its admittedly catastrophc results...
...America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855. Although Reynolds does not dwell on them, the similarities between the 1850s and the 1990s are spooky sometimes, the preoccupations of the two periods almost interchangeable...