Word: onward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, included Lenin in this pantheon. "The enemy is at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad," he said. "The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war." He thundered, "May you be blessed by great Lenin's victorious banner. Death to the German invaders . . . Onward to victory...
...more in ludicrous life-prolonging surgery. But our inner city hospitals are collapsing. Our infant mortality rate is shocking (the highest in the industrialized world). We are witnessing a revival of epidemics--not just AIDS, but measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis, diseases we thought were defeated, broken by the onward march of civilization...
...screen the public record of her childhood. Anyone can. You can re-view her evolution from tadpole to tomboy and beyond: in the Coppertone commercial, the Disney pictures, the sitcoms, Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone. And you can scan the interviews she gave to magazines from age 11 onward. Dear reader, we have in our possession a tape of a lunchroom chat you had in seventh grade. Care to hear what you said? Care to be held...
...such horror. There is a moment of black epiphany at the revelation of a particularly heinous crime -- a moment that is both oracular and inexpressible. Statistics and forensic minutiae will eventually move in to cloud our vision. And the incessant patter of news updates will inevitably numb us, pushing onward the boundaries of our tolerance for atrocity. But in the beginning, as we make out the shape of the crime, as we see it unfolding like some putrid flower, one word sputters to our lips: "Monster." The word applies whether the alleged criminal is a killer-cannibal in Wisconsin...
MUSIC Women rappers take the beat onward and upward...