Word: mutedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such characters are out of balance, but they aren't grotesques. The best story of this impressive collection gives us the gallant last moments of a severely crippled, middle-aged white woman and her lover, a funny, bop-talking black thief. It is their loving last phone conversation, as they...
Teer was the victim of a "punishment beating," a form of thuggery long practiced by both the Catholic Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Loyalist paramilitaries. The beatings are used to enforce discipline within their ranks and to combat what they self-righteously call antisocial behavior in their respective communities...
They can point out, for example, that Tipper Gore was among the first crusaders against obscene rock lyrics. First Lady Hillary Clinton has made frequent, if muted, denunciations of media vulgarity, and now seems to be turning up the volume, most recently in her appearance on Oprah. And sandwiched into...
If the militia's friends in Washington are muted nowadays, the zealots can count on one loud voice at the state level: Colorado state senator Charles Duke, 52, a fervent leader of a movement to reaffirm the 10th Amendment and strengthen states' rights. Local rights are, of course, a militia...
The Vietnamese are more ambivalent about April 30. Though the economy is expanding at an annual rate of 8%, there is much uncertainty about China's growing assertiveness in the region, about the aging communist leadership's reluctance to step aside and about whether prosperity is eroding the socialist values...