Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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POST-CAROLINA ANTHEM? Tomorrow Belongs to Me John Kander and Fred Ebb from the 1966 musical Cabaret...
...long? And what happens when the horror and revulsion in Israel over the assassination ebb, as such tides of intense emotion inevitably...
...sense of what the near future holds for the West Bank, one need only look at the experience of Palestinian self-rule so far. When Arafat entered the Gaza Strip, he and his aides raised expectations to an absurd height. The initial euphoria was sure to ebb, but Gazans could reasonably have hoped for competence and fairness, pride in their new government and a sense of momentum toward statehood. Instead they have seen organizational anarchy, corruption and autocracy. Meanwhile, the realization is sinking in that the Israelis will exercise some control over their lives for the foreseeable future. As they...
However, the complexity of the production means that no character holds the audience's attention for very long. Luckily, as the interest in one character begins to fade, another actor catches the audience's eye and holds on to the production's momentum, creating an ebb and flow that oddly enhances the production's own internal rhythm...
...evidence gathered from our own introspection, consciousness may be nothing more than an evanescent by-product of more mundane, wholly physical processes -- much as a rainbow is the result of the interplay of light and raindrops. Input from the senses clearly plays a part; so do body chemicals whose ebb and flow we experience as feelings and emotions. Memory, too, is involved, along with language-the way humans translate concepts into symbolic form...