Word: rootedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Taylor's views on life (rooted in a disillusioned foster childhood) are questionable, 43 years of extraordinary contributions to the modern dance world have made Taylor an incredible symbol of hard work and talent. Even if you're not savvy on the topic of modern dance and its rightful...
Proulx once lived in Vermont and Newfoundland, and the works which made her famous--Heartsongs, Postcards and The Shipping News--are more than simply rooted in those places: it is Proulx's firm belief, a belief that sometimes seems to verge on determinism, that geography inexorably shapes human behavior. She...
Perhaps instead of turning to Geraldo Rivera when tragedy strikes, we might consider turning to a Frenchman whose keen insights into America upon his visit in the mid-1800s still resonate today. Alexis de Tocqueville, in Volume Two of Democracy in America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our...
It's a tradition rooted in the greater movement to reclaim poetry as a dialogue between artist and audience. In the mid '80s, poet Marc Smith spearheaded the evolution of slam poetry by encouraging friends to battle it out Sunday nights at Chicago's Green Mill. After the evening's...
As Ben stumbles through the autumn landscape--"the prairie smelled of sage and of the dampness held in the earth"--he goes back in memory to his boyhood days of picking apples, his teenage courtship of Rachel, his service in Italy during World War II. Though the narrative is as...