Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet in Harvard Yard, the construction still continues, but six newly renovated first-year dorms emerged from the scaffolding just in time for the Class of 1997 to move in this weekend...
...novel, Wayne Wang's film of The Joy Luck Club shuttles between imperial China and today's San Francisco. Four immigrant ladies, who meet for mah-jongg and call themselves the Joy Luck Club, have four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters follow the quiet ambition fed them at birth -- to be unostentatiously extraordinary -- the mothers fret and fuss. You're not a good enough pianist; you're too proud about your gift for playing chess. "I'd rather get rectal cancer" than have you marry that Caucasian. And look at the top bedroom in this...
...local level, Christian Coalition had pursued a combative strategy. It sought to take over G.O.P. committees, ousting complacent regulars indifferent to the coalition's Bible-based agenda. In some intraparty contests, as well as races for public offices, the coalition's candidates kept quiet about their affiliation. Close to Election Day, bursts of church-centered politicking showed what was going on. Reed made the mistake of bragging in a few interviews about what became known as "stealth tactics," talking up the political benefits of guerrilla methods. "You don't know it's over," he once said of unsuspecting opponents, "until...
...work, uprooted himself from New York to California, grew politically inflamed and endured the deaths of his mother and, especially agonizing, his stillborn first child. "We lost a lot of friends because of their inability to deal with our grief," he recalls. "They seemed to think we should be quiet and move on. But I look at the whole world through that lens now, and it gave me the theme of denial, of misguided forgetting, that runs through my work." The image of a dead or lost child became the leitmotiv of The Kentucky Cycle, his epic cycle of nine...
...says her sister Theresa Hubbell. "She didn't want it done, I could tell, but she figured the doctor told her to do it." The clinic, however, was unprepared to handle the unusual pregnancy and postponed the procedure. She never went back. Though the Lakebergs are Catholic, Reitha, a quiet wisp of a woman, calls her decision mostly personal: "In my heart, I couldn't get rid of my babies." On June 29 she gave birth by Caesarean section; Amy and Angela together weighed just over...