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...aware of her role as voice for that collective anguish. In all of these poems, Lorde uses that pain to create an emotional intensity that makes her stark lines cry out in anger. Despite the eloquence of the language and the almost hypnotising rhythm and minimal punctuation, the poems stir up a sense of defiance and even frightening hurt. Lines like "as, with a smile of pity and stealth,/ she buttered fresh scones/ for her guardian bones/ as they trampled him into the earth," which place violence next to seemingly harmless images, abound in these poems...
CHAOS THEORY LIKES TO THINK THAT THE BEATING OF A butterfly's wings, say, in central Mexico may, in the complex interactions of nature, eventually stir up a typhoon in the western Pacific. The Clinton presidency seemed determined in its first three weeks to validate chaos theory...
Here's how it works you split the stadium into four equal sections, fill the stands any way you like, and send some skaters out on the ice to stir up some tension. It's a perfect equation--thousands of college students go into a frenzy over the old home team, then crowd onto a Green Line trolley toward a night of revelry, no matter who wins...
...begin, little white panel trucks carrying the clothes are still threading their way through traffic. The defile gets started nearly an hour late. By that time, the covered courtyard of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts is jammed with the press and the fashion faithful -- a tribute to the stir that de la Renta and Balmain are causing. On hand are a healthy number of designers and well-known customers: Valentino, Claude Pompidou, some major Agnellis and Rothschilds and a generous sprinkling of American celebrities, among them Marisa Berenson, Paloma Picasso, Mica Ertegun and Barbara Walters...
...government has vast legal powers to stifle dissent: an Internal Security Act that allows detention without trial, sharp restrictions on any statements that might stir racial or religious tension, and tough libel and slander laws. These have cowed most political opposition. "There is an undercurrent of fear," says a young man who left to live overseas. But Information Minister George Yeo does not apologize for "a political process that forces people to speak responsibly...