Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even lust, were often blunted by scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents sinned amid plenty while Abraham herded his flock in rustic innocence on dryer terrain.) Similarly, anger acquired a new layer of evil with the invention of knives and spears, to say nothing of guns...
...Laws of Our Fathers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 534 pages; $26.95) follows Turow's three previous best-selling novels--Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof and Pleading Guilty --in its portrayal of life, death and the search for justice in the Tri-Cities area of Kindle County, an imaginary Rustbelt terrain of remarkable moral and spiritual ambiguity. Once again a sensational trial forms the ostensible center of the novel while Turow demonstrates how inadequately the order in the courtroom mirrors the messy reality outside...
...existence, calls together a number of the novel's main characters plus a cross-section of Kindle County, old and young, black and white. The trial by now has been forgotten, although some of its secrets will be forthcoming. But for a moment, Turow bestows upon his roiling fictional terrain an interlude of peace; a sense, against so many odds, of reconciliation...
Putatively, it was all about a hole in the ground, dug by the Israelis in Arab East Jerusalem to complete an ancient tunnel showing off the buried foundations of Judaism's sacred Western Wall. Palestinians considered the digging a provocative incursion into their terrain, but in truth, it was only the match thrown into the tinderbox of accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state...
...been warning his top lieutenants that the Net could change everything about the way people used computers, perhaps even the fact that they needed an $89 copy of Windows to make their machines work. But he hadn't quite figured out Microsoft's proper place in the new terrain, and the company's thus far tentative market initiatives reflected that indecision...