Word: outer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember the 1950s," or the years of slavery? And I would respond by saying, "Do you know today?" For anyone who thinks that we still are a racist society, I will gladly concede that much to you, but only in light of the fact that racism merely pervades the outer fringes of American society, not its core...
...week's end the long dig-out had begun. Crews arrived from all over the South to clear the highways of fallen pine and live oak trees, restore power, water and telephone service and remove the wreckage and debris. It will take many months before the outer beaches can be restored to anything close to normal. Many of the dunes may never come back...
...operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked heart) to outer catastrophes. I sailed off to Bosnia and Hiroshima--big objective correlatives." Spasms of bloodthirsty fury, he observes, can block up the collective heart of entire ethnic groups, who cannot let go of old grievances...
Hickman tries ever so hard to live up to the festival's title, "OUT on the Edge," and fails at every, attempt, Nudity, simulated sex and cross-dressing are paraded by the audience as if to prove that Hickman is truly at the outer limits of experimental theater. Somebody should tell him that it's all been done before, and far better...
Recently, the Medical School faced a similar problem of academic freedom when Dr. John E. Mack, a tenured professor, authored a book about people who who claimed to have been abducted by alien creatures from outer space...