Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chiapas village where 45 Tzotzil Indians were massacred last week by supporters of Mexico's ruling party. Even as the survivors of the massacre struggle to rebuild their lives, TIME Latin America Bureau Chief Tim Padgett says "the tragedy in that remote little corner of Mexico may result in profound changes throughout the country...
...Whatever decision she made was going to have a profound effect on her life," he adds. "She needed to make her own decision...
...incubus of identity politics, supporting the side that favors them on one issue regardless of how they feel about the soundness of its total ideology. Wedding yourself to a whole questionable agenda just because one or two items serve your ends is not only irresponsible, it displays a profound lack of conscience...
...less obviously a fantasy and more difficult to bring off for lack of stage effects, traces the years of watching and listening that tie a woman to a large, rundown ranch in Texas. The point of the long, brooding account is simply for narrator and reader to understand these profound ties, the connectedness of memory, time's flow, seed's uncurling, and "the spider's silk lines of chance." Writing of this quality creates a stillness in the mind...
...rather desperate improvisation, an instinctive gesture he needs to make in order to assure his survival as a fully human being. He is surprised, puzzled by his own grace under pressure. The movie, in turn, respects his mystery, and by its refusal of glib inspirationalism earns our emotionally profound regard...