Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This enduring need to remember people at the pinnacle of their accomplishments drove the public interest in Dan Jansen's and Diann Roff-Steinrotter's quest for gold. These athletes, in the autumn of their youth, were afforded one last chance in the Winter Olympics...
...head scratching. Over most of its course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which he is sprayed by a talking skunk.) But Erdrich loses interest in Lipsha's love troubles, and we hear nothing more. Similarly, a chapter in which Lyman Lamartine, Lipsha's rival, goes off to Las Vegas and loses a big wad of the tribe's money leads nowhere...
...mingled with gobbledygook as their revealing fantasy characters -- a woman warrior for a young lesbian, a lizard with strange powers for a pimply computer nerd, a wise old seer for a tedious teacher and a princess who speaks in tongues for his faded, flustered wife -- obsess about visions and quests. By the end, two of the four are certifiably mad, and the other two are silently miserable. The cause of their downfall is the very thing most people would advocate to help them -- real relationships with real people in quest of real love...
Peres and Rabin are taking a calculated risk in their concessions to the Palestinians. They recognize that giving the Palestinians their legitimate rights of self-government represents a noble effort in the pursuit of Israel's quest to be a "light unto the nations." More importantly, the Israelis have recognized that they and the Palestinians are fated to exist on the same land, and that long-range security can only be guaranteed if the Palestinians receive some measure of justice...
...timers, however, are no longer adequate for Abernathy's ongoing quest for true energy efficiency. They will soon be replaced by infrared motion detectors that sense motion and body warmth, and Abernathy hopes that all buildings in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will have these detectors soon...