Word: inward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston's inward focus allows many of the state's politicians to treat the peripheral parts of the state like a useless appendage. Until this perspective is changed, cities like New Bedford and Fall River will only be the backwater that the people of Boston think they...
...Callahan she's the human conundrum at the heart of the world. Lounging naked in a bower, she's the Eve in his Garden. Emerging from water with her eyes shut, her hair dripping and her breasts just visible beneath the surface, she's everything that's inward looking, tantalizing and self-contained...
...center of all this mayhem is Diana. With her moody personality and mysterious connections, she undermines Fuentes' confidence in the only two things he ever found salvation in: his ability to write and to love. However, her inward vulnerability, romanticism, and rebellious nature eventually catch up to her; she becomes one of J. Edgar Hoover's "reliable enemies". The goddess is crushed by the onslaught of the FBI and the American media and Fuentes is left to reconstruct the ideals of his literary career and his perceptions of love...
...artificial eye turned inward is not a bad metaphor for the world according to Wallace. So is tennis, as represented here by the Incandenzas' son Hal, a teen court prodigy with a gift for lexicography and a taste for recreational drugs. The game as Wallace portrays it is a good illustration of the paradox that there is no freedom without rules and limits. But where mindless circuitry and drugs prevail, human connections break and emotional blindness ensues. Gone too is that key imperative of Western civilization, "Know thyself." Hal, ever the global-village explainer, logs his own symptoms: a feeling...
...dropped from 800 to 600, as inactive groups were shut down. In California alone, membership has fallen from 39,758 in 1990 to 31,168 in mid-1995, which leads Bruce, for one, to question the 270,000 membership figure touted by the national office. "The organization has turned inward, and there is no new vision," says Marie Jose Ragab, president of Dulles NOW in Virginia...