Word: threads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resemblance to the popular Ray Bradbury work The Martian Chronicles. Both satirize contemporary life by mixing symbols of daily existence with elements of the fantastic. In Bradbury's book, however, these various aspects were perfectly mixed and balanced. The author wove his tale using both these elements as his thread. Arenas is not nearly so skilled a craftsman...
...bring "stability" to those parts of the world deemed * too primitive to tolerate democracy, is Saddam Hussein. For it was Bush who saved Saddam. In the crucial days after the gulf war, when the Shi'ite south and the Kurdish north were in revolt, Saddam was hanging by a thread. The Administration could easily have tipped the balance against him. It chose not to. It stayed its hand -- muted its threats and grounded its aircraft -- in the name of stability and the unity of the Iraqi state...
...whole, the script is cleverly handled. The pseudo-lectures are full of amusing anecdotes and sly witticisms, and they are redolent with Woolf's typically ironic inconsequentiality. Unfortunately, one often loses the thread of what is being said and misses the point of the rambling monologue. Also, the vein of deep resentment running through the book is sometimes reduced to dramatic whining in the play...
Behind all the arguments, the claims and counterclaims, is the river itself, a glistening thread winding through some of the most spectacular and forbidding terrain in North America. Nobody ever toted a barge or lifted a bale on the Colorado; it is not that kind of river. Its gift to its surroundings has been not transportation and commerce but life itself. There is no more urgent task for the West than ensuring that the Colorado survives...
Most of the outages were quickly corrected, but repairing confidence may take a while longer. After discounting sabotage or a computer virus, investigators focused on the common thread shared by the stricken areas * -- they all use a computerized super-operator dubbed Signaling System 7, which automatically chooses the most efficient route for each call...