Word: sky
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Littleton buried its young last week, and the sky had the good sense to cry. When 5,000 gathered to celebrate the short life of Isaiah Shoels, a warm-hearted young man slain because he was African American, Columbine survivors walking in the rain to the Heritage Christian Center didn't bother to open their umbrellas; if they could feel the rain on their faces, they must be alive. Inside the vast modern sanctuary, the explanations tended to be straightforward: Satan had taken control of Harris and Klebold...
...always adored video and computer games. And while I know it's not a happy time to admit this, I have particularly enjoyed some of the bloodier ones. I've sat many an afternoon at the PlayStation, blowing enemy warplanes out of the sky in Ace Combat 2. I find it relaxing, almost meditative. I love fighting games, such as the Samurai-slashing Bushido Blade or the kung fu-ish Tekken 2. They work out my twitchy reflexes. I've become lost for days on end in strategic battle simulations, like Age of Empires, a game that lets you play...
...breath before setting off again on some new adventure. The last panel of a Tintin book rarely depicts anything other than a scene of departure: we bid farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night sky in his rocket ship. An old man and his courageous son, recently rescued from the clutches of some nefarious revolutionary cell, stand on the dock and wave their handkerchiefs...
...returning to the flattened places where their homes once stood, to see what the wind left behind. They are finding more dead; as the lists are compiled, said Gov. Frank Keating Thursday, the final toll could rise above 90 in Oklahoma alone. They are finding guns, dropped from the sky, or finding that the gun they had is gone and in someone else's hands. And they are finding that they have much to do: In tiny Mulhall, Okla., population 260, the twisters laid waste to over 90 percent of the town's buildings...
...Orioles left behind a cache of wooden bats for the cash-strapped Cubans accustomed to more durable aluminum ones. Given a month to practice, they might just play well enough to bring a smile to Castro's face -- and perhaps even to grab their own share of baseball's sky-high salaries...