Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good theater. Earlier this month, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in Seattle to drum up support for free trade, was picketed by steelworkers, antinuclear activists, Free Burma advocates--and Anne Kirkham, 26, of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. "I'm a bicycle activist, but it's all one big thing--globalism, urban sprawl, pollution," she explained. "It's about corporate greed...
That's a heavy burden for one little weenie roast. But across the country and the world, people are finding as many reasons to stay in this New Year's Eve as to go out. Most boil down to one thing: other people. With no basis in nature, the passage of a thousand years is a man-made phenomenon, and so are its attendant worries. The question of how you mark this millennium is partly a question of faith--not religious faith so much as faith in humankind. Faith that people can throng by the hundreds of thousands...
...spiritual and family orientation," says coordinator Karina Suwandi. Houston socialite Lynn Wyatt canceled a trip to the Pyramids, planned four years ago, in favor of a get-together at the family ranch in South Texas. "Four years ago, going to the cradle of civilization seemed like the right thing to do," Wyatt says. "Now we want more tranquillity...
...Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves to be, richer. But--and this may be the most poignant thing about Liberty Heights--these kids are ahead of a time that is still waiting to happen, a time when people will be sympathetically supported when they try to speak gently, lovingly across the color line...
...young performers, from Rage Against the Machine to Wyclef Jean, cite Marley as a role model. His legacy is a lot to live up to. Stephen Marley, who performs alongside his brother Ziggy in the reggae band the Melody Makers, says he has come to terms with it. "The thing is you have to accept that these songs are yours," he says. "Me having kids now, I know that any song I have is really my children's. Like my shoes, like my pants. Once they can fit in them, it's theirs. So that is the way I look...