Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curious consistency, the scheduled indolence of August has been interrupted by the sound of gunfire -- in Kuwait, in the failed Moscow coup, in half a dozen hot spots. As he is wont to point out, George Bush is the man who receives the midnight phone calls when such crises erupt overseas and who has "the guts" to act. It is August, and there are two dangerous disasters blazing on the horizon. Yet Bush, the foreign policy President, is moving most cautiously to deal with them...
...than ever before. It would be a mistake to blame communism for all of civilization's problems and to think that its fall would make them disappear. The recent explosion of unrest in Los Angeles proved that even in a country with democracy and an advanced economy, conflicts may erupt to which the system has no answers...
Sarajevo burns and the world watches. The first serious shooting war to erupt in the heart of Europe in 40 years elicits protests and admonitions, Security Council resolutions and embargoes, but nothing that stops the carnage. In Croatia, where a U.N. cease-fire is supposed to have ended the fighting, the historic city of Dubrovnik has just taken its most fearful artillery pounding in six months. Bosnia is terrorized. And the U.N. blue helmets head for safe ground...
...months of 1988. And Drabble's rather disjointed panorama of diverse characters caught in the amber of time produces an eerily convincing sense of life in a technologically advanced society, of the horrors that are reported electronically -- say, from the killing fields of Cambodia -- and those that may erupt immediately down the street or in the next room...
...various images that the musical projects fail to achieve coherence in the course of two hours. For example, in one scene the characters of Paul's novel erupt into dance. While the dance is well choreographed, hilarious and undoubtedly the best scene in the show, it fails to make sense in the context of the play. Rouse seems to want to juxtapose mystery, tragedy and farce. But there is little to connect these elements, and the basic absence of a strong, coherent plot shows up increasingly as the play progresses...