Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ashbery's meanderers are lost in, or overwhelmed by, crowds--of people, of data, of events, of promises. His speakers suffer from information overload, which leads to an amiable, brooding loneliness, an inability to stay focused on anything. One poem begins, "Tell me more...Actually we're overextended" ("Of Dreams and Dreaming"); many open with floods of pronouns, producing, temporarily, an infinity of possible contexts...
...good drama, ambiguities abound. Should out-of-staters take their ski dollars to antiabortion Utah? Should the voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south...
...will surely do their best to see that the locker-room ethos of the upper house goes the way of cloture. Members of both House and Senate now worry that more past indiscretions will surface. Thanks to Anita Hill, Washington women have greater assurance that their careers will not suffer if they call a powerful boss to order. And experts on sexual harassment are telling them that reporting it early is the best response to an unwanted grope...
Many of the incoming soldiers will turn to civic tasks like road building and providing medical care, making their presence less threatening. But if hostility does develop between the clans and the international force, relief workers worry that their efforts -- the point of the humanitarian exercise -- may suffer. "We have people out there in the bush saving lives," says Ben Foot, a field representative of the Save the Children Fund. "We would like someone to explain what is going to happen, because we're going to be in the middle...
...think that Central Square should suffer all the weight of Cambridge and Somerville," said Lawrence Simms, a Cambridge resident...