Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sledgehammer." Perhaps they have hit us with this visual sledgehammer so that we will reconsider what we regard as innocence and lack of sin, when we forgive greed, gluttony and the rest. Sommerset talks of apathy being regarded as a virtue in the city. The killer wants to awaken society from its apathy and so, maybe, do the film-makers. According to them, virtue may defeat sin but it does not defeat the anger that sin creates in the killer and his ilk. Rather, decency or normalcy (in the form of Detective Mills) must be the way to defeat these...
...took the wild ride of Perot's 1992 candidacy to awaken the rest of the political world to the possibilities of running outside the sinking two-party system, and Perot has not ruled out the idea of tapping his billions and trying it again. He remains such a force that virtually every politician of national renown-with the notable exception of Bill Clinton, who nonetheless sent an emissary-braved the August heat in Dallas to lavish tribute on the jug-eared Wizard at his Oz of a political convention...
...Baseball is] at a critical point and [is] going to have to do something either to awaken the sleeping giant or put it to rest once and for all," Skwar said...
...will certainly not be easy to awaken inpeople a new sense of responsibility for theworld, an ability to conduct themselves as if theywere to live on this earth forever and to be heldanswerable for its condition...
...Christian Coalition and religious conservatives in general are not intolerant extremists but ordinary people who are working together to try to preserve the values that made this country great: faith, family and freedom. As more and more people slowly awaken to the excesses of failed liberal social engineering, they realize that the beliefs and concerns of the Christian Coalition are not extreme but very much like their own. CHRISTOPHER KARAS Lowell, Massachusetts...