Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the Confucian work ethic is the source of motivation for some Asian-Americans. But to describe this as the sole reason for the entire group's relative academic success is a shallow analysis of a complex interplay of forces...
According to a victim who related the actions to us, the program consisted of a plainclothes policeman participating in the sexual and semi-sexual interplay in the bathroom for a period of time. He then leaves, only to return with his badge, arresting everyone who had been loitering (and not necessarily participating in the sexual conduct). We also know that the men have been charged with "open and gross lewdness"--a felony, I am told by Kevin Cathcart, the co-director of Gay Lesbian Advocates and Defenders of Boston...
...twelve-member orchestra, conducted by Matthew Tap, is exceptionally strong, and provides energy to some otherwise dull musical numbers. Occassional orchestral interjections, rim-shots for bad jokes and a hilarious interplay between trumpeter Roy Groth and emcee Schaffer on the "lip-sync trumpet," add nice color to the performance...
Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth (1985). Roth's trilogy of novels about the American Jewish writer Nathan Zuckerman seems even more impressive whole than it did in its serial installments. Zuckerman is not Roth, exactly, but neither is he entirely unlike his creator, trapped by work and celebrity. The interplay between these fictional and real beings is unfailingly rich, comic and engaging...