Word: equilibriums
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...Pinter room. Anyone who has seen almost any of Harold Pinter's plays will know exactly what that phrase means. A cold, unwelcoming, claustrophobic chamber, in which the inhabitants live in anticipation of a visitor - a threat to their dingy equilibrium. Pinter's plays have been performed all over the world, from Australia to China, and an awful lot of people have recognized those lonely rooms...
...Read through the problematic cipher of fifth-grade pedagogy this was hardly history; instead of forging some kind of connection with the past, it served to set the stage on and against which the future was peremptorily defined. European settlement and the Chicago fire were just evidence of punctuated equilibrium in the disjunctive march of midwestern progress...
...crotch. I've explored just about every awkward motion possible while trying to ski, but up till today, I have never simply stopped moving forward, despite every muscle firing in the right sequence and straining to move me forward. After a surprised moment in this strange equilibrium I let out a wheezy grunt and gently slumped forward. From this position my body somehow found one last drop of adrenaline in my already taxed gland and it squirted into my bloodstream. With this as fuel, I managed to stand up and continued my lurching progress up the hill, but this breakdown...
...hitherto unthinkable alliance of lesser bullies, jocks, do-gooders and former victims. It was over in seconds, Benito limping off, his shirt ripped, his nose bloodied and - the ultimate humiliation for the bully among bullies - tears streaming down his meaty cheeks. And with that, the old equilibrium was restored. Benito was forced by a harsh lesson to respect the traditional hierarchies within which each of us knew our place...
...right to grant the survivors anything they think will help them through the night. But there's a question whether this execution will be a last milestone in their hellish journey or yet another trauma to absorb. Will public witness deliver a moment of catharsis, restore a measure of equilibrium to a shattered universe? Or is it one last way for McVeigh to victimize them? Many of the survivors obviously hope for a closure that has so far eluded them, for a miraculous lifting of their grief. But they have their expectations in check. "In the early stages I wanted...