Word: netherworlds
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...newspapers and on radio and TV. But the cover picture of a lone firefighter kneeling to check a fire-hose connection against the background of a tree erupting in a ball of flame summed up Californians' frustration and helplessness. The Dantesque orange glow bathing the entire scene imparted a netherworld aura to the image and gave me the uncomfortable feeling that there was no escape. I was arrested by a stark sense of the anguish and loss that those fires caused but even more by the primal insecurities that are aroused whenever we confront such unpredictability in nature. That...
...This is how he may have continued, a jobbing musician in a seedy netherworld, were it not for an epiphanic injury in 1992. His friend fell asleep at the wheel of a car and ran off the road, sending Ponnudorai, a passenger, headfirst through the window. Initially, he appeared miraculously unscathed and was sent home with a head full of stitches. But days later, he was unable to fret guitar chords or walk a straight line. Fresh tests revealed a massive blood clot covering an entire side of his brain, just waiting to rupture, and he was rushed into surgery...
Marooned without recourse to prudence and common sense, ideologues dwell in an airy-fairy netherworld where logic, reason, and humanity do not apply...
...word is dying. It is in a strange netherworld much like the old terms “papist” and “communist.” Like those almost-forgotten slurs, the n-word has lost some—but not all—of the force it once had since it is so rarely used in its original context...
...that.’”His most recent play, for example, Pulitzer-nominated “Miss. Witherspoon,” addresses reincarnation issues in the post Sept. 11 world. The character, after killing herself, muses over the state of the nation from the “Netherworld.”“The first step of impulse in the Miss Witherspoon play was thinking about reincarnation,” he says. “What an awful trap that would be.” The play, along those lines, explores how today’s world...