Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elda, and the generations of European women she represents, created a powerful personal creed. She was an avid healer, a caring, soothing presence in the face of poverty and a demeaning social position. And it is her experience--the experience of the nurturing, intelligent and misunderstood woman--which Sorceress chronicles eloquently...
...sense of ethnicity confirms belonging; it may not reduce the pain of otherness, but it helps one face it. This show is an exaltation, not just a symptom, of diversity. And of course the diversity is internal as well: the artists themselves are a broadly diverse...
...midnight they find a grain car with a narrow porch. Twenty minutes later, the freight pauses to add an engine, and aliens from the Mexican border clamber aboard frantically. Finally, the clickety-clack commences for the last time. A hobbyist road-named the "Gentle Giant" defines this moment. "You face nature, and the train is your friend," he says. "All your senses are alive. You'll love your wife, your children and your home better." Three weary faces framed in a sunrise breaking behind the westbound freight seem to agree...
...know: Is he talking about me or somebody else?" Melnikov proceeded to do what would have been unthinkable even a few months ago, naming names -- and prominent ones at that, including Andrei Gromyko, the country's 78-year-old President. The smile faded from Gorbachev's face, but when the highlights of the session were played on Soviet television later in the evening, that remarkable exchange was not deleted...
...closing address, Gorbachev pronounced the four-day meeting a success and hailed glasnost as "one of the heroes of our conference." He also promised to "bring about a qualitatively new condition in our society and give a human face to socialism" -- the exact phrase used 20 years ago by Czechoslovak Reformer Alexander Dubcek. As Gorbachev joined the delegates in singing verses of the Internationale, he took off his glasses. A pensive, almost weary expression crept across his face, the look of a man who has put one more victory behind him but still has many more battles to face...