Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...when Livesey portrays that most vulnerable side of Hazel Ransome's mind under attack, our natural impulse is to fear for her safety. Hazel, the amnesiac at the center of things, loses her memory, and in an improbable web of deceit, her ex-fianc Jonathan scrambles to keep it hidden. During a phone call with Jonathan, Hazel goes unconscious for a short while, slips into violent seizures, then reawakens with no memory of the last three years. Those three years were traumatically eventful-she fought with her lover over his infidelities, moved out of his apartment and appeared...
...objects-books on Egyptian philosophy, sheet music by Maurice Chevalier, cheap miniature sphinxes-I overheard the conversations of other patrons as they indeed discussed their ideas about the art they had seen that day. Far from the imposing gallery room in which novice visitors muffle their comments for fear of being "wrong," "The Living Room" fosters an atmosphere in which visitors feel comfortable to comment and question-exactly the kind of environment conducive to aesthetic discovery...
...Hasty Pudding theater last night, my anger at the comments being hurled past me and at the silence of the people around me, battled against a startling resurgence of the shame and fear that I often felt when in the closet. Part of me wanted nothing more than to be straight, to have the option to just laugh or sit silently by, knowing that the bigotry filling the room was not directed at me. Part of me hoped desperately that none of the people spewing these comments knew that...
...Serbians and all other minorities, the future could be even dimmer. The Yugoslavs would not like to become another protectorate in the region, with elected presidents sacked at will as in Bosnia last year and with the possibility of losing further territory and rights. A particular aspect of this fear presently relates to Kosovo, which the international community recognizes as a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia while not recognizing Yugoslavia itself...
...they will attempt to overthrow the detested Milosevic only when they are assured free elections, elections that will provide them with leaders who will protect their interests and show a real effort to establish democratic institutions in the country. Until then, they will continue to live in fear from both their own mafia-infested regime and the international community...