Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that wondrous entity, the human personality, is being decoded. An even temper or a short fuse, an affectionate nature or a penchant for anonymous sex, a love of thrills or a tendency to withdraw: such elements of our cherished sense of self are being revealed as less the shadings of the soul than the manifestations of neurobiology...
...China Labor Bulletin -- banned on the mainland as "subversive" -- and who are playing a key role in the outbreak of wildcat strikes and protests. "How much pressure can the laborers endure?" asks the dissident. "Things can explode at any time." And the government seems all too aware that the fuse is burning...
...sexes has some potential to take its place, to fill the need for portentous conflict with seemingly enormous issues and irreconcilable differences, as between cobra and mongoose, earthling and alien. Men and women at one another's throats, or waving knives at one another's private parts, admirably fuse the dimensions of the intimate and the world-historical. Journalists and essayists have to make a living; men and women leading peaceful, productive lives with one another have to be dragged somehow into the combat. Accordingly: "You hear what she said about you? . . . You hear what he just...
...full understanding of their separate heritage, his messages is not separatist. Using the term "cultural hybrids," West asserts that for people of African descent, "there's a New World dimension, there's a U.S. dimension. New world Africans dream in European languages and play European instruments but also fuse them with African Polyrhythms, African intonations and so forth...[T]here's tension and friction always there for those of us in the New World. The question is whether we can make it creative or whether it becomes destructive." Keeping Faith is West's direct effort to reconcile the African-American...
...Guinea. Says Perry: "The mask, though once a living part of a tree, is dead. Nevertheless, it has, through the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own." Into the Labyrinth does not always carry so powerful a thrust, but its exotic elements fuse and cast a spell of breathless gravity...