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...disaster; no omens hinted at a catastrophe of epic proportions. But for a month, the sky has fallen, bit by bit and drop by drop, and the waters have gathered on the face of the earth to flow into the river; and now it has risen up and rolled onward like an ocean on the march, capturing farmland and township, bridge and barge...
...what sort of beast North Carolina's 12th District is. It ambles crookedly from the textile mills of Gastonia to the skyscrapered banking district of Charlotte, through Lexington's furniture factories, picking up a voter or 10 on its way between Greensboro's downtown and Burlington's outlet malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people settle for "snake" or "worm." But what...
...still the academic requirements pile onward. For a lot of undergraduates it's been a tough job to concentrate on medieval dates and wait for the sound of orders in a mailbox...
...text is sometimes magisterially suited to the operatic background music. But it is often cumbersome. (Sample: "From that day onward, they set about plotting to do away with him. On his part, Jesus refrained from coming and going freely among the people.") When Jesus preaches, the audience hears an inert medley of greatest hits -- aphorisms strung together without logic or sequence...
Someday, an 80s revival will happen, and someday it will be interesting. However, we've but just recently sounded the death knell on the 80s, and most of us are interested in pushing onward. Revivals seem only relevant once we've forgotten about whatever it is we're going to revive. Let the 80s corporate aesthetic rest for a while...