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...this in context: today's young adults, who grew up amid the debris of an older generation's failed relationships (between the mid-'60s and 1981, the divorce rate more than doubled), are wrestling with the very notion of forever in marriage and finding it unattainable or even suspect. Young couples have not trashed the idea of lifetime partners. Instead, they are creating their own models...
...firm's aesthetic is rooted in the past. "A conversation with Hoefler and Frere-Jones is an instant education, not only in letter design but also in history, fine art, literature and music," says Michael Bierut, a partner at the global design agency Pentagram and a frequent client. Such context is important. Whether it is Sumerian hieroglyphs on clay tablets or cybertext on the Internet, the written word is made up of assembled shapes, and the tiniest details--the contour of a serif, the slope of a curve--can evoke mood and emotion as concisely as the message itself does...
...John Goodman, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg), but neither the guest stars nor the sublimely numb Bullwinkle manages to rescue the picture from its too comfortable reliance on retro charm. It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth...
...disgust that just about overwhelm the sense of sadness: What a damn dumb inexcusable thing! And the two women died with him. The Kennedys have been testing the limits of their dispensation for three generations now. In the last generation (Joe Jr. and John and Bobby), death had historical context and therefore the dark prestige of tragedy. But when planes go down in incompetent or reckless moments, or when a guy skis into a tree while playing high-speed downhill touch in the Rockies, there's not enough tragedy involved to make a hero...
...never called homosexual human beings deviants. I have pointed out that homosexual behavior deviates from the norm of heterosexuality and is forbidden by Scriptures. That is basically the context... Even now I get hundreds of letters a week from gays and lesbians who realize the way I'm being presented is nowhere near the truth. I stand behind basic civil rights--where someone is able to live, and work at his job--and always have. The only place where there is a divergence is the issue that I consider sacred: marriage and family structure around children...