Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep issue I want to touch upon has to do with me and my colleagues--journalists who, for all our recurrent, usually unattractive displays of know-it-all confidence, occasionally come upon a story such as yours and recognize our helplessness before it. Most honest journalists will admit that they never really understand the events they attempt to organize and clarify, and that more often than not it makes a "better story," one that comes closer to the truth, to swim around in the mystery of things...
...Rachel, when I write, "This is what I want to tell you," please read, "This is what I want to ask": Where do we, who ply our trade in this magazine and elsewhere, find the knowledge of the unknowable? How do we learn to trust the unknowable as news--those deep issues of the heart...
...scandal: Who are we all in silence--at a table in the cafeteria, at a table in the library? What can journalists tell others about the mind we all share, the innocent mind and the murderous? That is the real news of your death. That is the news I want to remember next week, when Kosovo is over or not over, and CONGRESS DEBATES GUN CONTROL, and Al Hirt's trumpet is no longer heard...
...swamp serious art with intrusive audiovisual aids like at the 1995 Edward Hopper show--fairly short on hoopla. It touches upon all the major American movements of the 20th century and does it with balance and care and, in general, a keen eye for the best examples. If you want a short account of the turn-of-the-century New York realist group known as the Ashcan School (Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows and others), the selection here could hardly be bettered...
...discourse about feminism. I can't bear its smugness, its complacency, its juvenility. There are women out there who are hurting, badly." In a flash she shifts from anguish to fierce sarcasm: "We can wear lipstick again. Did you ever stop? And if you stopped, why? And if you want to wear lipstick, go right ahead, but why wear it on your lips? Wear it on your...