Word: plights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only way zealots like Yager can understand the tragedies they cause is to set up an equally insane men's version of the group to help fathers kidnap their children. Perhaps then women might understand the plight of divorcing fathers who face a court system that nearly always treats false accusations as true until proved otherwise. ARA KASPARIAN Glendale, Calif...
...make the message clearer? ALEK WEK is the fashion industry's current darling, scoring the cover of Elle and MTV's model-of-the-year award. And now both the U.S. Committee for Refugees and aid organization World Vision have signed Wek up to wake people up to the plight of displaced families in Sudan, her war-torn homeland. She spent her 21st birthday appealing for help for a country where more civilians have died unnecessarily than in the conflicts in Somalia, the former Zaire and Bosnia combined. And while Wek may not be able to list facts and figures...
...part together," says band member Thurston Moore, 39, "which was getting through our 20s and 30s together." Sonic Youth doesn't embrace the swagger and sexual bravado of mainstream rock. The band's lyrics are often deliberately remote, seeking to capture, through abstract imagery, the wildness of adolescence, the plight of junkies and losers, and the social frustrations that come with gender barriers. Sonic Youth's members present themselves not as saviors but as everyday sorts who happen to have instruments...
...advise you to), pay attention to the plight of workers who have lost their jobs and ignore Moore's vague prescriptions for change. Like many important artistic works, the merit of the film lies in its ability to bring pressing issues to light, not in its attempts to solve them...
What do we do with this sort of theater? Even when it was hardly visible from the back row, The Cocktail Party filled the Winthrop JCR with an obscure imperative, neither calling for a systematic analysis of Eliot's intention nor a sympathetic internalization of Edward Chamberlayne's plight. Eliot's play glistens in space between gushing romanticism and total ironic self-deprecation. As still young and mostly un-betrothed audience members, we can only be glad that Eliot has asked his questions, and it is cathartic to see that the answers (to live in darkness, to honestly accept...