Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of this bothers the thousands who attend Bradshaw's workshops. They are there, hankies in hand, for an orchestrated, emotion-laden family reunion with their inner selves. The dramatic set piece is an exercise that Bradshaw has recently started to call a collective grief ritual. "Now if any of you have a stuffed animal, you may want to hold it," he advises listeners just before the lights in the auditorium dim and a schmaltzy recording of Sibelius' Going Home begins its familiar strains. Many of his followers -- casually dressed, of all ages -- clutch teddy bears or plush puppies...
...shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot. In effect, she is trapped between two wolf men. She can see through Gaston's looking-glass ego, but it takes time for her to find the vulnerability within the Beast's barbaric, heroic grief. He must be feared, then pitied, and finally loved...
...black-vs.-black violence that has been tearing the nation's townships apart. Fighting between supporters of the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party and A.N.C. backers has claimed more than 200 lives just this month and at least 1,000 so far in 1991. Archbishop Desmond Tutu voices grief that a weekend body count of 15 dead has come to be considered hearteningly...
...seemed like a rebelette without a cause vamping for the world's attention. Now she has it. Not content to continue spinning out mere dance-floor fodder, she has used her bully pulpit to preach scantily clad homilies on bigotry, abortion, civic duty, power, love, death, safe sex, grief and the importance of families...
...Rome. He soon became too ill even to return home, and last week he died. The cause of death was complications resulting from AIDS. That is a chilling sentence, one that is found in more and more obituaries these days. We at TIME, sadly, are familiar with the grief and sense of loss it signals...