Word: mortality
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...NEWFOUND appreciation of Southernness began to arise around the time I defected to Cambridge. In place of Southern courtesy (a cliche grounded firmly in reality), I found scowling store clerks, irate motorists and pedestrians engaging in mortal defiance on city streets. I realize now that a part of me really does thrive "down home...
...attitude and handlebar mustache, Munson was killed in 1979 when his plane crashed. I can remember no moment in my life as sad as when I heard the news of his death. I was shocked, dumbfounded and crushed, unwilling to believe that such a person was mortal...
Henry doesn't sell drugs or commit robberies. "I just like gang banging," he says, meaning hanging out with his friends. He witnessed the mortal consequences of gang banging when he was eleven: a 16-year-old homeboy was shot twice in the head by some guys from "Colonia Watts." Henry was hanging out on the next street, heard the shots and ran over to find the boy sprawled on the street, his blood seeping onto the concrete. "I was mad, everybody was." Henry didn't get a chance to vent his anger until much later, for a different shooting...
...electricity generated at past superpower summits by the prospect of mortal enemies edging toward peace was blessedly missing. This time the meetings were between two world leaders whose nations are fully at peace but have conflicting interests and needs. The grand gesture was replaced by haggling over money and politics...
With a wolf that eats a grandmother and a little girl who gets into mortal trouble by talking with a stranger, the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood reeks of violence and veiled sexual terrors. But when a version of the story by Trina Schart Hyman reached Culver City, Calif., last fall, school officials thought they sniffed something really troubling: an implied endorsement of alcohol...