Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dawn the grave walls shake with the sound of gongs and bells and clappers, and priests huddled in green robes, or all in black, gather around a brazier, drinking tea. A high priest in orange robes, followed by an attendant carrying a red umbrella, delivers blessings on the heads of rows of crouching petitioners. Underneath the main hall is the temple's most charged metaphorical space, an underground passageway, black as the womb, in which the visitor, sightless, is invited to fumble through the cold and dark in search of a "Key to Paradise...
This is the lighter side of Wilson. But the issue to which he has dedicated his career are far more grave...
...rightful place in American literature." That view heedlessly erases the numerous African-American women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler and Carolivia Herron among them--who, as Morrison's sisters, have brilliantly contributed to contemporary African-American letters. THOMAS GRAVE Providence...
...material well-being and shattered national confidence. If daily life for most of Cuba's 11 million citizens is less miserable than it was during the darkest days of 1993, it is still a grinding round of poverty, hunger and dead-end jobs. Even the cradle-to-grave health, education and welfare systems, once proudly held up as the "achievements of the revolution," are badly compromised. Prostitution, that humiliating hallmark of the Batista years, is back in force; dollar legalization has undermined social equality; the centralized economy has yet to deliver basic necessities to most citizens. Unemployment, not known...
...know that all sounds a bit pointy-headed, but the message is simple and important: Wall Street has grave doubts about corporate earnings in '98. Asia isn't just sinking, it's sinking in. "The more the analysts learn, the less they like," says Manley. That's why the stock market has gone nowhere. The bad news is that when profit momentum swings from plus to minus, it is usually accompanied by steeper stock declines than what we've seen. Look out below! The good news is that it's still too early to know if the profit cycle...