Word: tat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tat criticism of Japanese and American cultures defies value judgments. The most unrepentant in the fast L.A. world of high stakes capitalism is Eddie Sakamura, fantastically played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Eddie combines the sleaziest of instincts from both sides of the Pacific with a playful indifference...
...before, violence tested the resolve of the politicians. Gunmen staged a conference-eve attack on a school bus in Natal province, killing six. Three days later, a similar cold-blooded ambush there left 10 people dead. What may have been tit-for-tat murders prompted fears of renewed clashes between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party supporters...
JUST AS CINCINNATI THOUGHT IT MIGHT LIVE DOWN the embarrassing Marge Schott affair came yet another specter of bigotry: taking advantage of a federal court decision that forced the city to permit a huge Hanukkah menorah in a public square, the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby. Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection, hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled and trampled on it -- but the Klan...
DeGiorgio says tat running for elective office is not thigh on his agenda...
...wares. He cites Buckminster Fuller's appeal for a fundamental "design change" of society. To loud applause from the assembled acolytes of acupuncture, psychoshamanism and touch therapy, he declares that any vast health-care reform "should also recognize alternative healing modalities." The custom-tailored sermon, delivered with rat-a-tat intensity, goes over so effectively that he is coaxed into a second performance for all the healers and spiritualists who were unable to squeeze into the auditorium for the first...