Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Austin Sloper, a prominent New York doctor, first enters after a day spent delivering someone's child. His solicitous care of other families stands in cruel ironic contrast to the distant, detached husk he becomes in his own household. His daughter, by contrast, exists in perpetually stunted emotional tumult. In her first line, she seeks approval from her aunt Lavinia (Eve Johnson), holding the skirt of her new dress, nervously asking, "Do you like the color...
...strongly about anything," he said. His comment underscores the way the au pair issue has crystallized serious fears in our society and quickly transcended the particulars of this case. Matthew's mother, Deborah Eappen, worried after Tuesday's proceedings that her son's death had been lost in the tumult, The Boston Globe reported yesterday. People have forgotten about this one family and their one son--a clear reminder that the tragic death of one child is not seen to be the critical issue at stake here...
Barring another, more serious meltdown, analysts consider it unlikely that the tumult in Asia will trigger a major market correction in the U.S. But that doesn't mean it won't have a lasting impact. David Hale of Zurich Kemper Investments predicts a surge of up to 25% in Asian imports made cheap by devaluation and a contraction in U.S. exports of as much as 15%. The result could be that the U.S. trade deficit, now $191 billion, would balloon to as much $300 billion next year and fan a protectionist outcry...
Several fellows lamented their distance from Israel during the tumult of the last few weeks. They said they feel their access to news is limited by dependence on the American press...
...lies trapped, then evaporates back into the atmosphere). The thin, spreading crust of the valley floors is notoriously unstable, agitated. Hot springs steam up through faults and fissures. Whirling dust devils dance across the flats. The mountain ranges are new, still rising, alive; perched on top of this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets are surrounded, as often as not, by fresh-dug earth, and what's not being built is being shored up or razed. Just off Highway 50 the settlement of Frenchman--once home to a diner, a gas station...