Word: inwardness
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...yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors couldn't open at all. Greg Dobbs, Evergreen, Colo...
...yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors couldn't open at all. Greg Dobbs, EVERGREEN, COLO...
...Russia party to resounding victory, strong-arming a putative republic of his own—manipulating the media and muzzling opposition parties. A man whose heart our own president once professed to “know,” Putin’s political ambition seems to know no inward bounds—or external constraint. Yet the Russian premier’s name hardly appears among the White House’s “axis of evil...
...immigrant marriage-and-murder plot in The Silence of Lorna, a wife falling for the man who sent her husband to jail in Three Monkeys, a woman who's afraid she ran over someone in Lucrecia Martel's widely praised Argentine film, The Headless Woman - before turning sullenly, claustrophobically inward. For many vaunted directors at Cannes, this was a year of treading water...
...spend a lot of time nursing its wounds. Instead, we did what most countries do when they're attacked: we set out in pursuit of the people who did it. This left a quiet at home, and in that quiet, Taryn Simon turned inward...