Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone's breaking out the vacuum cleaners," said Terri J. Halperin '97 of Quincy House, a member of the Junior Parents Weekend Committee...
...Steve Forbes' flat tax has become about the best idea going, since it is just about the only idea around. We are almost willing to sacrifice the presidency to a single-issue candidate because there are no multiple-issue ones. The substance vacuum that is plaguing America distorts the political process. The voters of New Hampshire go to the polls today aware of the presidential horse-race but ignorant about what those horses will do once in the winner's circle...
Down in the cesspool of Port-au-Prince, it does not feel that way. A brutal dictatorship, a repressive army and organized political violence have been banished, but crime and mob rule are filling the vacuum of authority. Five thousand ill-trained, ill-equipped and immature policemen must control a desperate population of 7 million, propped up by a rapidly dwindling U.N. force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment...
...popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...
Thereafter, the camera work serves to highlight both the flesh-for-money world Travis lives in and the pathetic madness of the cabbie himself. Several overhead shots of tables as hands exchange money and purchases emphasize the vacuum of this world. At several points, the camera speed is subtly slowed down, as when Travis sweeps his hand over a table in the campaign office with Betsy, making the scene even more hypnotic without our realizing...