Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite the rhetoric, PBHA leaders appear to be yielding some ground...
...into factions that turned on one another and the government. Last year a new group began knocking at the city's gates: the Taliban, an army of self-styled "students" of Islamic fundamentalism. Having repeatedly failed to take the capital, 8,000 Taliban are now camped on the high ground south, hurling rockets into the city. They announce themselves with the sound of a jet; a second of silence follows, then an explosion makes the earth tremble. It is not unusual for 15 to land in a day; some days see as many...
Times have changed. Countless studies attest to the connection between psychological condition and both illness and recovery. What might be called the spirit/ body connection, although still regarded skeptically in most parts of the medical world, has conquered popular culture, the staging ground from which mind/body launched its siege of the academy. The prophets of this healing offensive are photogenic and media-friendly (enlightenment these days almost never implies asceticism), but here their common traits end. They speak in different tongues to reach different audiences. Physicians like Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Larry Dossey remain soberly scientific but eventually make...
...credibility by doing all her coverage in a negligee. While Franken looks forward to offending "a few Republican delegates who don't have a sense of humor, who'll get mad at me," he may also slip into Stuart Smalley mode. "I'm going to reach for common ground. I'm going to show that a complete nut-case right-winger and I can get along...
...many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance...