Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without issue, the boy inherits their estate. Throughout his distinguished career, Trevor, 60, has made the symbolic tale his specialty, and now, with a small cast and piercing ironies, the Anglo-Irishman illuminates an entire people afflicted by history. "No matter how it was," Sarah tells an old woman, "it belongs to the past now." Her listener disagrees: "The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted." There, encapsulated, is the story of Ireland -- and the art of one of its most skilled and subtle tragedians...
...loudspeakers that no one would be killed if people did not tease them or try to injure them with jinglees, sharpened bicycle spokes fired from slingshots. "Don't believe them," said a man watching the soldiers rumble along. "They will kill when they get the order." An elderly Burmese woman watched the troops. She shook her head and said, "Ne Win? He is like a cross between Pol Pot and Ferdinand Marcos...
...emerged over abortion. While Bush seemed discomfited by a question about what punishment would be appropriate if abortions, as he urged, were made illegal, Dukakis immediately jumped on the issue to declare, "I think that what the Vice President is saying is that he is prepared to brand a woman a criminal for making this decision." The now shopworn controversies over the Pledge of Allegiance and Dukakis' membership in the American Civil Liberties Union also made their obligatory appearances as Bush charged that his opponent is "out of the mainstream. . . Do we want this country to go that far left...
...Africa as a child of the '60s, hoping to find a bit of adventure by observing an endangered subspecies, the mountain gorilla. In 1985 she was murdered, under mysterious circumstances, at the research station she had built up for nearly 20 lonely years. In that time, an agreeable young woman became a hard, half-mad case who nonetheless saved "her" gorillas from almost certain extinction...
Saturday morning and you're out at the discount store with the family. Suddenly the three-year-old starts hip-hopping urgently from foot to foot, and you know what that means. In the men's room there is no toilet paper. When Daddy asks for some, the woman at the customer-service desk eyes him as if he were just the sort of geek to jam the roll down the toilet, flush twice and drown everybody in the store. The toilet, it turns out, does not flush well anyway. Also there's no soap, and the sink...