Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finest starchy breakfast snacks money can buy, having seen the exhibition of Danish painting at the Fogg, I don't plan to throw out my Goyas, Cezannes, and Van Goghs to make room for their Danish contemporaries. If you've never heard of any Danish painters, don't panic. The collection of Danish paintings currently on display, while interesting, serves mainly to indicate how little you've been missing over the years...
...with Hispanics, mostly new immigrants, perhaps as many as 20,000. Many of them come from countries with a history of quakes and take no chances with aftershocks. There are grills with rice and beans; someone has a portable TV; a radio is playing Mexican pop. There is less panic here than among the Anglos, but more sadness. Yvonne Androver, 27, a cleaning woman, glances at her nephew Brando, age nine months. He is fast asleep, contented. She has been jolted back into her past: Guatemala in 1976. A 7.5 on the Richter scale. Twenty-three thousand people dead...
...McConnell / Buzas, these elfin works could be called Stoppard Lite. But they are really Beckett Brisk, for they are about the creative process, frantic and forlorn, of getting through life. They suggest that all human existence is an improvisatory rehearsal for some grand opening night that may never arrive. Panic is the universal language. And yet, as Ives shows, rewriting life can produce a happy ending. Destiny may be, as his Trotsky says, "only a capitalist explanation for the status quo," but it can also be a sure thing. As two lovers, rapturous in bed at the beginning...
What can opponents of the President's health plan reveal to match this collection of prejudices? I confess proudly: my emulation of the man whose season comes around every December, Ebenezer Scrooge. Every time I hear it said, in accents of panic, that 37 million of my fellow citizens lack health insurance, I find myself thinking, as that keen economist said when he was approached by professional do-gooders, "Are there no workhouses...
...Most people in this situation, in panic, pull the energy backup string [causing the parachutes to entangle] and free-fall to earth, killing themselves," says Lewin...