Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third and final scene, the characters unravel to the point of near abstraction. Unable to find the absent father, John and Donny are moving, and Del arrives to make amends. John has become completely dissociated from the other characters, looking straight ahead into the audience, refusing to make eye contact, asking chilling questions with an eerie lack of emotion: "Do you ever think things?" "Do you ever wish that you could die?" The mother attempts a bit longer to deal with John but is ultimately too devastated by her husband's rejection and by her strange unreachable son. Del meanwhile...
...cryptogram" expecting to be able to easily unravel the various levels of meaning. Understanding comes not when one is leaving the theater or even on the way home, but only through subsequent thought and analysis. "the cryptogram" fits well the description Winston Churchill once used for the Soviet Union--"a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma...
...defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a humanitarian solution in Chechnya. The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet Empire. The invasion of Chechnya could unravel the Russian Federation. And the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace. Is the cold war really over...
...took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central and south Asia. Is the cold war really completely over...
...took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central and south Asia. Is the cold war really over...