Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Korder, one of the most promising American playwrights, reaches back in style more than half a century to the era before the dominance of kitchen-sink realism, when the American theater was expressionistic and experimental, poetically and politically inflamed. Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about the way we live now. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and back alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...
Offering advice for the future decision-makers of the twenty-first century, Galbraith said there should be a "safety net to which people can't sink below into poverty...
...falling in sheets. Leaping the iron fence with little finesse, I landed, fully expecting the Prince of Darkness to be waiting. I sat by a tree and watched as rain drops landed on silent tombstones. My adventurous spirit began to subside as the reality of this evening began to sink in. There were no witches in sight, nor anyone with facial warts in the vicinity. In fact it seemed like I would see nothing of the sort. The rain had prevented any candle-burning Satan worshippers from performing their heretical rituals, there was no dull moon for werewolves, high-winds...
...desktop publishing Harvard: clean, elegant composition, perhaps a simple logo, and all the pertinent information. A far cry from the font-crazy ravings of today that, in their witty enthusiasm, often leave off important pieces of information. There are too many organizations promoting too many things. As students sink in information overload, organization's sink into the muck of cheap puns. Their audience, ever more weary of the insipid posters and T-shirts that have become inescapable, get even harder to reach. And so the cycle continues...
...There was water everywhere, but not normalwater--there were mud clumps," Wynne said. "Waterand sewage were spewing out of the back of thewasher onto the floor and the draining sink wasoverflowing...