Word: reawaken
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...that, far from protecting him, his stature as a beloved hero of the revolution is precisely what makes him a threat to paranoid tyranny. He knows their visitor, Dimitri, works for the secret police but worries only that this handsome, charming man, his wife's lover, may reawaken buried emotions...
...Television does not have to alienate. It can reawaken creativity and can be proactive, rather than reactive," he added...
...daughter, a student whose delving into family history prompts her elders to do the same, and four men who appear vital to these women's lives but who are one by one sloughed off. Wasserstein is interested in serious issues; the sisters are assimilated Jews who only slowly reawaken to the importance of their culture and religion, while on the periphery the men debate a host of topics from current headlines. But in form and uproarious dialogue the play is a commercial comedy. On that level, Sisters is a delight and is exquisitely performed, especially by Kahn as the ditsiest...
...where quick reflexes are prized, Skinner became the preferred troubleshooter. He managed the Administration's response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Eastern Air Lines strike, Hurricane Hugo and the 1989 California earthquake. Now Skinner's task is to cut dead weight from the White House staff and reawaken the Administration's dormant domestic policy and public relations operation. His appointment has worried some conservatives, who relied on Sununu to take their side in most fights. But Skinner, who has recently applied his charms to the right, insists that he is "as conservative as any conservative" and adds that...
Ardent Zionists hope the latest anti-Arab sentiment will reawaken the blue- collar Jewish work ethic that built Israel. So far, however, few Israelis have been willing to accept low wages cleaning streets and digging ditches. The Dizengoff shopping center in Tel Aviv laid off 30 Palestinian janitors from Gaza two weeks ago, after they repeatedly missed work because of strikes and curfews. Managing director Gidon Kottler admits that he'll have to either raise salaries to attract Jews or use more machines. He says, "Jews are ashamed to do that kind of work during the day when people will...