Word: thread
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disturbing lack of coherence. Rzewski has a tendency to encapsulate when he composes, not maintaining any particular texture, motive, or even mood long enough to establish it firmly. When he is not working within a structure that inherently supplies unity--such as his favored variation form--the thread of his musical argument can become obscured or lost. The second and third movements were variations on "laps" and "L'Homme Arme," respectively, and the latter was particularly bewildering in its surface complexity and wildness...
...Minus Mansfield, some needles, cloth and thread...
...poetry. Alternately sorrowful and biting, Schnackenberg derides a modern society that has lost touch with its historic roots. Ancient ruins figure prominently in this sequence, symbols of an artistic and spiritual splendor that once existed and has now been abandoned and forgotten. Poetry is described as "a gold thread...you feel your way along" in the search for memory...
Schnackenberg exhorts us to value that golden thread: "But really you must admit/You're lost/ But really you must not lose the way," she writes of the human condition. This can refer to losing the "way" of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but the poem suggests a further, broader meaning: by losing the connection of poetry to history, we lose a vital way of understanding our past...
...self-interest in -- doing more. Clinton's advisers recognize the importance of helping Yeltsin with hard cash as well as rhetoric, but have not reached any decision on whether to back an expanded aid program or how tightly to tie payouts to reforms. The new Administration will try to thread this needle by pushing for the fastest possible delivery of aid already in the pipeline, emphasizing technical help in regions where reform is percolating fastest and raising public awareness of how much America has at stake in Russia...