Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found objectionable, impossible to live with. Louisa is passionately devoted to Henry, but "it troubled her that she could not predict...
...itself, a temporary shelter. In such a context, wedding vows become highly problematic, promises made in defiance of experience and reason. Still, the women take the risk. The narrator of Now I Am Married concludes, "He is my husband, I say slowly, swallowing a new, exotic food. Does this mean everything or nothing? I stand with him in an ancient relationship, in a ruined age, listening beyond my understanding to the warning voices, to the promise of my own substantial heart." In Safe, a wife and new mother suddenly realizes exactly what she now owes to her husband and child...
...professed ignorance about the Pollard operation. "If we had one major party in power, you'd find a scapegoat. But here they all hang together because everybody's implicated," charges Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "You can't scapegoat anyone. That would mean a breakup of the government...
...wonders, though, if these awards are any more than what singer Aimee Mann called "patting each other on the back," or if the black lucite plaques the winners received will mean national attention for them or for the hundreds of struggling bands whom the Awards overlooked. If the Boston Music Awards does become a permanent annual event, the awards ought to mean something. The least they can do is give them a good nickname, say "the Bommies", or "the Hubbies...
Left Wing: Forget his 37 goals, his 1.97 points-per-game average and his ECAC Tournament MVP Award. Men's hockey forward Lane MacDonald makes my team because of his smile. The kid's got a grin as broad as Detroit, I mean Duluth...