Word: grave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Europe's requirements, for the next three or four years, of foreign food and other essential products--principally from America--are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help, or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character," wrote Marshall in his speech...
...General Accounting Office too had made its security concerns public well before last week's crash. A grim report released in March noted that air terrorism remains a grave concern, and that "terrorists were aware both of airport vulnerabilities and how existing security measures could be defeated." After being briefed last week on these concerns, including those raised by the inspector general's new report, Republican Senator Larry Pressler, chairman of the Senate transportation panel, was dismayed, and acknowledged that he was himself "nervous" about flying. "There's got to be an understanding that we need better airport security, that...
...particular pleasure. "You can't compare the dangers of covering a war with those of exploring ancient Egyptian monuments," she acknowledges. But Dahshur's 4,600-year-old pyramids and tombs did provide a few eerie moments. "Snefru's Bent Pyramid is unsettlingly majestic. In nearby tombs the grave shafts are so deep you can't see the bottom," she says. "It may be a cliche to talk about Egypt's timelessness, but there is a great deal of truth in it. The country lends itself to reflection...
...John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer's movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects. There are no explosions here, just a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave after a 30-year rest. Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), sheriff in Frontera, a Texas border town where even corruption proceeds at a somnolent pace, has reason to believe these to be the earthly remains of a sadistic and crooked predecessor, Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson). He also guesses that his late father Buddy...
...case, solving this long-ago crime is more pretext than text in this movie. For the silence of that grave symbolizes a larger and more conspiratorial silence afflicting Frontera. This had its uses at one time, especially as a way of muffling differences between its black, Hispanic and Anglo communities. But Sayles wants us to count the costs of silence too--in the baleful distortions it imposes on the people who keep it, in the damage it eventually does to innocents like Sam and Pilar when they are not let in on the secrets it shrouds. Above all, he wants...