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Word: griefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...membership to meet new challenges and opportunities, it will be a positive factor in the promotion of democracy and regional peace. The prospect of NATO admission has already induced several central European states to accelerate internal reforms and improve relations with their neighbors. Russia, which has come to grief twice in this century because of instability in central Europe, has a security interest in these favorable trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGING THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...sober innocence) is basically an old-fashioned romantic, believing that morality resides solely in being true to one's best self. His refusal to acknowledge the desire of true believers to enlist everyone in their cause--whether malign or benign--brings him first to profound isolation, then to terrible grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NICE TO NAZIS? | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...Mertueil's scheme. Madame de Rosemonde (Vanessa Reisen '97), Valmont's aunt, possesses the deepest understanding of the play's web of deceit. In a downhearted acceptance of the production's cynicism, she says that "to hope to be made happy by love is a certain cause of grief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Complex and Witty 'Liaisons' at the Agassiz | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

...Abnormal sexual behavior" is not the cause of AIDS; ignorance and inadequate sex education might be more appropriate enemies. It is ridiculous, uneducated and extremely homophobic to ally the two issues of AIDS and homosexuality. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is not about homosexuality; it is about mourning remembrance and grief. Viewing the quilt, one can see a piece in remembrance of an infant next to one remembering an 85-year-old grandmother next to one remembering a 26-year-old Chicano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ignorance and Homophobia Hamper AIDS Discussions | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...that question before images of the battered and dying and you risk seeming indifferent to grief. But not to ask it opens the way to aesthetic blackmail, allowing the fact of suffering to cancel your doubts about the pictures that convey it. Or try to. Goldin has felt the blows of the past decade or so as hard as anybody. You wish sometimes that her work were as acute as her pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: SHOTS THROUGH THE HEART | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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