Word: equilibrium
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...ballet. The moves are often slow and arduous, but the great tension and energy between the dancers make the struggle heartbreaking. Robbins goes boldly to Farrell's melodramatic strain, and she responds by portraying the horror of death without any romantic gloss. He exploits her ability to defy equilibrium in shocking images of paralysis; she compliments him by never overplaying the drama...
Balance, be it ideological, legislative or otherwise, is much sought after by politicians. But Ronald Reagan is hoping for a different sort of equilibrium from a second hearing aid that he wore in public last week. The President started wearing an aid in his right ear 18 months ago, but the White House announced that he is now "experimenting" with a second one in his left ear in order "to achieve balance" in distinguishing the direction of sounds...
This is a fetching idea and one that applies to America's most public poet. Approaching his autumnal years, the man once feared as a weevil in the nation's moral fiber is in a disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries...
...fairy tale. In primal imagery and orotund cadences it sets the young imagination on a children's crusade against malevolent power. It describes a vicarious rite of passage through bloodshed and anarchy to heroic manhood; it upends the prevailing social order to establish a new moral equilibrium. For the generation of budding revolutionaries in the 1960s, Frank Herbert's Dune was a magical mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange...
...endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...