Word: otherworldly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Thanksgiving of freshman year, I havebeen aware of how easy it is to forget one worldwhen you're living in another. I always feltmyself instantly gliding into my respectivepersonas and roles as soon as I moved from oneworld into the other. At the same time, the otherworld immediately receded from memory andconsciousness...
...first you don't succeed . . . From Battlestar Galactica to this season's V, science-fiction shows have stubbornly failed to take off in prime time. CBS apparently can deduce no earthly reason why, so it is trying with Otherworld. A family of five, touring the Great Pyramid of Egypt, is transported through a "space-time warp" to a mysterious world where the good people are androids, the bad people have ray guns, and no one is allowed to venture into the "forbidden zone." The family seems terribly blase about all this, but no more so than the series' creators: folks...
...deal that could have been made only in the political otherworld of the two Germanys: deutsche marks in exchange for closer ties between people. The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week approved backing for a private bank loan of more than $330 million to East Germany, the second time in two years that Bonn has guaranteed such a deal. In the language of diplomacy, the loan carried no conditions. But in the world of Realpolitik there were clear requirements, and it came as no surprise when the West German government also announced that East Germany will ease...
...long nights of desire and failure. For the next 35 years, directors took their cue from Williams' own lazy flights of self-destruction, from his wispy-wise, Percy Dovetonsils voice, and launched productions of his plays on gossamer wings toward the aerie of poetic eccentricity. In the Williams otherworld, one tiptoed through cobwebs, was blinded by moonbeams...
...second model, "the death of the self," attempts to describe changes that Ariès believes began in the 11th century. The tightly woven tapestry of knights and monks gracefully facing their fate was attacked by the moths of individualism. The world became more worldly, and so did the otherworld. Ambitious men sought to preserve their identities beyond the grave. Hence the development of wills providing for memorial Masses and religious endowments that could be good investments in heaven...