Word: rootedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The season opener -- in which Mom tries to greet new neighbors, rent out a room, fend off a suitor and keep the washer and dryer from being repossessed -- is a bit too hectic and overwrought. But the family is believable, and Olivia Burnette is totally winning as Dorothy Jane. With...
Cartoonists from Jules Feiffer to Garry Trudeau have doubled as playwrights, for understandable reasons: both crafts use dialogue and visual narrative, and in both the best humor is rooted in personality. Lynda Barry, whose weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her truest metier...
California's fiscal plight is rooted in explosive population growth. During the 1980s, the state's population swelled more than 6 million, to nearly 30 million; almost half of the new arrivals were immigrants, who put huge strains on welfare, health-care and education programs. The crunch was made worse...
"We do put China in a special category," says Harry Harding, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "The need is for a realistic relationship, but both sides want romance." This romanticism is rooted "in our history, in the missionary presence, the traders," says Doak Barnett, professor emeritus...
Opposition to the Democratic Front is rooted in part in the eccentric politics of the group, which is an umbrella organization of resistance factions dominated by the Tigrean People's Liberation Front. Originally rigid Marxists, the Tigrean fighters have proclaimed themselves converts to pluralism and the free market, as have...