Word: moment
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...moment when we must take charge of Mom's and Dad's lives is a wrenching rite of passage for baby boomers, who in many ways are still struggling to grow up. "As a generation, we haven't seen much death, and we haven't experienced a great deal of hardship ourselves," says psychologist Mary Pipher, author of the best-selling book Reviving Ophelia and the recently published Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders (Riverhead Books, $24.95). "We weren't in a Depression. We weren't in World War II. For many baby boomers, this...
...take a look at a game on your TV. Here is what you will see: a human visage fills the screen, registered so tightly that its ears are outside the frame of your picture. Its jaw muscles are working, its eyes intent on something or someone outside, for the moment, your field of permitted vision. Sometimes a thin stream of a liquid substance you'd rather not think too much about emerges from its purposively pursed lips. If you have the sound on, you may learn that this enormous face belongs to the pitcher and then surmise that this pitcher...
...state system of concentration camps, which exterminated 60 million Soviet citizens in 50 years. Solzhenitsyn survived eight years in prison camps and three years of internal exile and, in secret, wrote The Gulag Archipelago, revealing for the first time the existence of this chain ("archipelago") of death mills. The moment the manuscript of the book's first volume was smuggled out of Russia and published in France in 1973, it was as if a stake had been driven through the heart of Marxism. It was only a matter of time before the body and the tentacles rotted away, a process...
...artistic landscape. Barney follows, doing what all visionary artists do: he creates a parallel universe that reflects something wholly novel about our own, though through a far narrower lens. His obsession, in his own words, is "to try and find a space that's free; to find that moment between formlessness and form before things get defined...
...television writer James Poniewozik. "In Disney?s ongoing quest to take advantage of the vertical integration potential of getting Disney-produced shows on the network it owned, a development person just didn?t figure in." Yet Tarses, dogged by criticism and rumors of her impending doom almost from the moment her tenure began in 1996, never really made the case that she deserved to keep the autonomy that was steadily taken from...