Word: signpost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That Strawberries is there, though it was not always, and will not always be, is something to be taken notice of. For it is a signpost, and it is there for me, I since it is in my purview. Am I there for Strawberries? It is not for me to determine...
...referring to the theater, but he could just as easily be talking about the block as a whole--which begs the question of whose memories you take as your signpost. Rudolph Giuliani's? Those of the kids who used to watch kung-fu movies in the old New Amsterdam? John Barrymore's? With the mix of live and canned entertainment, shopping, restaurants and tourist attractions, and with the hoped-for blend of high, middle and low brow, 42nd Street's caretakers are aiming to re-create the traditional ambiance and uses of 42nd Street in a late-'90s context. Since...
...dealing with the fact that he has lost custody of his kids. Indeed, most of Mercury Falling deals with loss, longing and epiphany. On its best cut, I Was Brought to My Senses, Sting sings, "...And inside every turning leaf/ Is the pattern of an older tree ...Every signpost in nature/ Said you belong...
...tweak is "too little, too late," argues Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist of Chemical Bank: "A quarter point will help a wee bit, but it's going to take more than that to get this economy going." One signpost: house sales lately have been flat, despite a drop in mortgage rates...
...play reaches its apex of pathos, however, in and her newly resurrected father, played by Levine. Literally rising from the dead before our eyes, Raymond is harbinger, father and weatherman rolled into one. While he is a remnant of the family's past, Raymond is also Susannah's signpost--he points the way for her to discover the crows, her lost brood. Here we sense the title's dual meaning, that while family is murder, the "murder" (the formal term for a flock of crows) is also family...