Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ivory BMW") and her initial description of her middle-aged, open-married Manhattan heroine ("Clea Shawn was a sophisticated woman . . . she'd been in love so often that her heart felt like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse...
...concern for Israel's safety puts Jewish critics in a poignant bind. They agonize over how to make their feelings known without endangering Israel's strength, capitulating to anti-Semitism or giving demagogues in the Knesset an excuse to make the conduct of American Jews an issue in Israeli elections...
...other large accelerators have been built to probe the nature of matter on a scale far smaller than that of the atom. The goal is to answer ancient and fundamental questions: What is the universe made of, and what are the forces that bind its parts together? These questions cannot be answered without an understanding of what happened in the Big Bang, the unimaginably hot and dense fireball that 15 billion years ago gave birth to the universe and all it contains...
Playwright Karen Malpede intended the work to be a celebration of womanhood and woman's fertility. At a crucial and trying moment early in the play Macha states, "Bind me to life." Both she and her daughter Etain (Courtney Williams) see themselves as bound to life, and the phrase as their emblem...
...ties that bind the West Coast to Asia are not merely cultural but also financial. At the news of the earthquake that ravaged the San Francisco Bay area last October, Wall Street barely blinked. But in Tokyo, Manila and Hong Kong, stock markets dipped nervously. The Pacific coastland is a 20th century Asia Minor, a continent in miniature, with a diversity of mores and languages not matched anywhere else. Among those who have sunk roots are Cambodians, Thais, Filipinos, Koreans, Japanese, Indians, Vietnamese, Indochinese hill people, and Chinese from the People's Republic, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Most hold...