Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center's diverse knowledge base includes Simson Garfinkel, a frequent contributor to Wired Magazine, and John P. Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a Institute of Politics fellow this semester...
...traditional notion of a sexuality restricted to male-female relationships in order to maintain its cohesion. The male-female relationship has been the cornerstone of families and, by extension, communities and societies, throughout all of history's revolutions in tolerance. We may never be able to tackle this final frontier of social reorganization...
...soldier dreams himself into a Goya painting of a firing squad: "I stand/ before the bright rifles,/ nailed to the moment." Komunyakaa's other great theme is race, and not just his own. In "Quatrains for Ishi" he follows a Native American from his capture on the California frontier to his interment in San Francisco's Museum of Anthropology...
...with the highways that supported it, extended the strange and strained realm of suburbia. To absorb this mobility came drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks and, most important, the shopping mall--Main Street reconfigured for cars. Society was transfigured: the automobile brought America to a new frontier made up of Tinkertoy communities full of undefined relationships and spaces, with the car itself an extension of living room, playroom, bedroom, with the whole country viewed through the windshield...
...grim, steel-helmeted East German troops. Rattling in their wake were the tanks--squat Russian-built T-34s and T-54s. At each major intersection, a platoon peeled off and ground to a halt, guns at the ready. The rest headed on for the sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin like a jagged piece of glass. As the troops arrived at scores of border points, cargo trucks were already unloading rolls of barbed wire, concrete posts, wooden horses, stone blocks, picks and shovels. When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided East...