Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite their renegade perspective, Durang's works are quickly becoming a part of the late-20th century canon. His plays are shelved next to W.E.B. DuBois at Lamont, and are sandwiched between Lord Dunsanay and Marguerite Duras in encyclopedias of drama. Yet for Durang, the bigger pay-off is the popularity of his plays among drama students. "I'm very flattered by that and then when I get a bad review, it makes me think, oh good, then the play isn't ended just because a critic didn't like...
...marriage, it becomes clear that what we are seeing is as much about the savagery of "ordinary" life as about the savagery of the jungle. When Bishop finally turns bestial, leading inevitably to the rape of his mother, we know that it is the whole past, not just the Lord of the Flies situation, that has driven...
...Grubb speaks, registration and sales tents rise behind her. "When I began volunteering we thought of it as a Denver thing or a Colorado thing,'' she says. "Now it's going across the U.S. and starting into Canada and other countries. The Lord expects more from us, as we're ready...
With the Simpson verdict and with the country about to turn the autumn corner into the 1996 presidential election, I keep returning to the sentiment that Americans could find, if they were looking, in the old hymn "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." King was right: The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is what matters. Stop defining people by color, by groups (blacks, whites, Asians, gays). Stop practicing the politics of tribal identity. But you would have to rescind a universe of political correctness and poisonous identity politics in order to restore...
...look around at the peeling lead paint on the walls in your tiny apartment, waiting for the slum lord to turn the electricity back on so you can cook a bite-sized dinner for your malnourished kids when they get back from their overcrowded, dilapidated public school--cheer up! We, the Republicans, are concerned about all of the American people. And we've got an extra special plan just...