Word: tampere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insanity, the rain descends "gently and unceasingly" in a deluge which threatens to overrun both the story and the nation. The past and present are so full of people and their troubles that this terrible weather becomes a sign of hope, "the only thing nobody has been able to tamper with." In an environment where everything can change at the whim of whichever army or party has control, the constant drizzle becomes an unlikely redemptive force. These passages provide a reflective distance from the disarray of the rest of the novel...
...four women, from the rest of the planet, and a veneer of scientific legitimacy. The seal has been broken several times in the past year and a half -- most recently to pump in 10 tons of badly needed oxygen. Now the veneer of credibility, already bruised by allegations of tamper-prone data, secret food caches and smuggled supplies, has cracked...
...through the near-synonymity of the oedipal drama and marriage with the traditional novel. That is, queer lives might in fact be consisered queer exactly because they don't conform to these stories, and Miller suggests that "gay fabulation...has been inseparable from a series of experiments needing to tamper with the most deeply imprinted aspects of traditional narrative form." Barthes enters this series of experiments with a narrative practice that Miller joins him in naming "the novelesque without the novel." The technique is characterized by an "indifference to overall architechtonics," and a choice to pursue "an incident dislodged from...
...cutting welfare for the poor is a lot less explosive than reducing entitlements for the elderly. News that Clinton may try to tamper with Social Security sent shudders through the Greater Dayton senior citizen center, even though most of the regulars are too poor to be affected by any increase in taxes paid on benefits. "Every President tries to stick his hand into our pockets. But I worked my hands to the bone to earn my Social Security," said Isabel Mejia, 79, pausing from her volunteer work, in which she rolls plastic eating utensils into paper napkins...
...just a frivolous attempt to tamper with nature, the experiment could conceivably be the first step in providing extra daylight to sun-starved northern cities, extending planting and harvest periods and aiding nighttime rescue missions. Those goals will remain distant, however, until the Russians' space program, cash-starved after the end of the cold war, gets a new infusion of money. They'll need more than mirrors to pull off that trick...