Word: seam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eggbeater-like action in midfield a time or two. When the ball strayed into the stands, play stopped until the fans returned it to play, something that rarely happens in American sports. American sports are so spoiled, in fact, they tend to demand a new, unblemished ball if a seam so much as feels a sigh coming...
...Japan, finished in 1984, is a marvel of engineering and fabrication. Inside the main, 2,000-seat gym, a vaulting span of 262 ft. 6 in. seems to levitate the roof just off the walls, creating an intense ribbon of natural light instead of some ordinary bolts-and-concrete seam. Outside, the pair of connected buildings, both clad in perfect, curved, wafer-thin sheets of stainless steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki has said, "is to awaken subconscious memories of shapes...
...local water sources, and some neighboring towns have detected higher incidences of tumors, cancer and birth defects. "Each of the military services is guilty," says Seth Shulman, author of The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military. "From coast to coast, there's an unbroken seam of toxic time bombs...
...Fires in the Mirror." Anna. There she was; then there she wasn't. A man, now a woman. A Jewish mother, a Black child. Not a seam between them...
There is was. Crown Heights in all its tragic display, the victims and the victimizers, but who was which (hardly a seam between them)? The thing I had heard about in passing was now alive, breathing, walking the stage, evolving--with each new face, into the terrible truth at its center. A dramatic gesture toward immortality, a dramatist's gesture toward immortality. An immortality of the pain and the grief. An immortality of the voices, the torn and urgent voices that vie in boundless cacophony. Voices to which the rest of us shut our ears to hear of only...