Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silence, and a society long cowed by terror erupted with relief. The President's security forces indulged in a daylong binge of celebratory shooting. "The war's over! We won! This is democracy!" a policeman shouted as he fired his 9-mm pistol into the air. Middle-class women laden with jewelry and dressed in tight-fitting Western clothes waved flags from the windows of cars that sped through Algiers with horns blaring. Temporarily at least, the Establishment had lost its fear of the guerrillas...
...greatest plays are flush with poetry in the broad sense--with moments of compressed lyrical yearning. A number of his most famous lines (like Blanche DuBois' valedictory "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers") might well have surfaced in one of Robert Frost's adage-laden verse-monologues...
With that kind of sorrow-laden past, it is little wonder that these "quintessential strangers," as author Isabel Fonseca calls them, remain wary of all gadje (non-Gypsies.) An American of Hispanic and Hungarian-Jewish parentage who lives in London, Fonseca used her painstakingly acquired knowledge of Romany, the Gypsy language, to gain insight into a scattered nation of 12 million people without a homeland. Bury Me Standing (Knopf; 322 pages; $25) is both a history of the tribe and an account of the author's personal quest to uncover its secrets...
...other end of the spectrum, some segments of the show are intentionally laden with metaphorical meaning. The fractal segment, in which these exotic patterns become visible on a screen as the Blue Men spread shaving cream with trowels, is significant to Blue Man cosmology. According to Stanton, the unpredictability of fractals, their structure which is both methodical and chaotic, reflects the randomness of modern life and proves that "We [mankind] are not that crazy after all." Goldman is intrigued that "patterns do a thing which nobody expected them to do, which is look more similar the more complicated they become...
...retaliation Israel has been expecting since the leader of Islamic Jihad was assassinated last week came early Thursday morning when suicide bombers targeted a bus carrying a group of Israeli babysitters. None of the Israelis was killed, but 11 were injured and the two terrorists died when their bomb-laden cars exploded. Islamic Jihad had said it would seek revenge for the slaying of its leader, Dr. Fathi Shakaki. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "The reason that no Israelis were killed is that the Israeli soldiers who were accompanying the bus noticed the first bomber...