Word: fleetingness
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RESIDENTS OF SIMI VALley don't usually have much contact with people from South Central Los Angeles. The lustrous suburb where the Rodney King beating trial was held and the inner-city war zone that erupted in rioting two weeks ago are separated by just a 45-minute ride. In...
LIKE A DEADBEAT WHO COMES TO THE party but refuses to have fun, Robert Smith, lead singer of the CURE, knows the seductive power of denial. Drifting over dirgelike beats and churning guitars, Smith's alienated lyrics and choked-up vocals have helped make the Cure the most accomplished and...
The first change you will notice as you begin reading is the weekly news summary that starts on page 22. This section, called The Week, will deliver on the purpose that our founders, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, set for the magazine in its prospectus in 1922: to keep busy...
The action is episodic, and most characters are fleeting, placing more stress on Dunne's performance than his lightweight, ingratiating style can bear. The first act is expository and lamely comic, acutely lacking the menace and madness that make the second act crackle. Sometimes the play is a chilling rumination...
Public opinion responds to threats, not to opportunities. It is easy to mobilize support to meet a clear threat but difficult to rally it to seize a fleeting opportunity. If our leaders put foreign policy on the back burner until world events produce a new threat, our moment of opportunity...