Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind [with worry]," Markovicsays. "Every day I call to see if he is alive...
There are moments when politics seems a grand calling, but the eruption of evil among schoolchildren isn't one of them, and so a curious and altogether appropriate quiet settled over American politicians in the wake of the nightmare at Columbine High. Not absolute silence, mind you--there's only so much we can expect of our politicians--but quiet: a kind of humility that suggested they knew they had come up against the limits of their trade...
...crazy enough to advocate the use of NATO ground troops to push the Serb military out of Kosovo. This sort of thinking demonstrates that we haven't learned a thing from Vietnam, Somalia and a hundred other similar situations. Superior firepower has created an illusion in the American mind that warfare can be swift, efficient and relatively bloodless. Fighting the Serbs on the terrain of Kosovo will be bloody, ugly and long lasting. If the politicians are so gung-ho to sacrifice our sons and daughters, let them be the first ones on the battlefield. GREG SAMSON Clinton Township, Mich...
...deal, says the game's creator (Jennifer Jason Leigh): "They do it in malls; it's like having your ears pierced." She might be a stand-in for the writer-director, who in Scanners, Videodrome, Crash and The Fly has dealt creepily and eloquently with the disintegration of mind and body. eXistenZ, where Leigh and Jude Law get into a virtual reality game and can't get out, is more modest than its current twin, The Matrix, but it pulses with a furtive fury that's pure Cronenberg. Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird...
...imagine the thought that crept into Fidel Castro's mind sometime last year: "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great New York Yankees!" Except of course that would be embarrassing, since the Yankees are paying quite a bit of money to the Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez. And so the thought became "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great Baltimore Orioles!" And on March 28 it was so, when an Orioles team featuring some of the highest-priced talent in the bigs went down to Havana and became the first Major League Baseball...