Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ventilator box, which looks like a robot's backpack and is carried behind the chair on a metal shelf. The translucent tracheostomy tube (trach) leads from the box to the slit in his trachea below his Adam's apple. When he speaks, he must catch the ventilator on the outward breath, finish one sentence and get at least a word into the following sentence to signal his listener that he has something more...
Amelia faces her own problems, going through familiar phases with Bill the video guy (Kevin Corrigan)-or as she revealingly refers to him, "the ugly guy." To all outward appearances, Bill seems about as desirable as the freak-show films he tries to recommend to Amelia, we are confused and wonder if we should vaguely pity Amelia as she seems to pity herself. But Bill's actually a decent guy with his own feelings, not immune to Amelia's name for him, and, when he senses Amelia's doldrums, he tries to help, however clumsily...
...from President Clinton, observed, "No matter how secluded and how innocent we are, once we leave our community, we're subject to the troubles of the outside world." For now his town will turn inward, if only to tend its hurts. It would be understandable if it never looked outward again...
...frustration with government and a wariness of its reach. Which is why many scholars have expressed concern that Americans have been turning inward during the past 25 years. Putnam and others argue that such self-help groups as 12-step organizations and New Age religions have usurped and replaced outward-looking civic groups. In his book Trust, Francis Fukuyama says that the "rights revolution" of the 1970s and '80s undermined the country's sense of community. I replaced we as the pronoun of choice. The Me decades supplanted the We century. There is no doubt that America's narcissism...
...body; that morning the news was relayed to his horrified wife in Texas. Later that day, she got another phone call. People in the high camp had been astonished to see a zombie-like figure staggering down the hill toward them, face blackened from the sun, arms held rigidly outward, eyes closed to slits. Weathers had refused...