Word: shades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shade of the UNTAC umbrella, there is a heartening political spring in Cambodia. Alongside several brave Cambodian groups, UNTAC is promoting human-rights ideas. At least 14 political parties have sprung up to contest the election, including one with the Stars and Stripes as its symbol. Hun Sen's ruling communists have renamed themselves the Cambodian People's Party, but find it hard to escape their Marxist, pro-Vietnamese history or reputation for corruption and brutality. Their principal competitor is the nationalist, anticommunist party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler...
Plato and Socrates went by their first name. Often they taught little study groups under the shade of the tree. And perhaps, most indicative of their informality, they didn't even wear pants...
...were only a few feet away from John Harvard's statue, which--probably not coincidentally--had been doused with the same shade of blue paint...
McGuane, whose recent novels have seemed a touch broody, enjoys himself with this one. The fine barrelhouse prose of The Bushwhacked Piano and Ninety-Two in the Shade is working again. He waves his arms, he hoots and hollers and thrashes out a rowdy parody of the male psyche under the stress of having to defend itself in the supermarket. Without taking sides, of course, between male and female, he makes it clear that what Frank needs is the loving care of a good woman. What will set female readers to muttering Wiccan incantations is the certainty that some patient...
...prime exemplar of the crucial debate America is now having with itself, at the decibel level of a Metallica concert. What should the level of political discourse be in an election campaign, or on radio and TV, or at the office water cooler? At what point does comic exaggeration shade into slander? When everyone is shouting, is anybody listening...