Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of South African author J.M. Coetzees writing. His first eight novels, though different in style, all explore the different modes of discourse through which he, as a white South African author, can convey the reality of living in a country that has seen such a rapid shift in power. In the most recent of the eight, Disgrace, Coetzee continues this exploration. Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, Disgrace articulates the same concern as Coetzees 1990 novel Age of Iron, in which a retired Professor of Latins struggle with cancer is symbolic of the waning force of humanism. Until...
...scenes shift as Helen's life proceeds; the intensity of chaotic readings of two poems at once in between scenes marking time and the growing intensity of Helen's eventual departure into insanity. The maternity scene is almost too experimental and strange; while the doctors are supposed to reflect robots, again, emotion creeps into the scene and destroys the rhythm between the dialogue and actors machine-like movements. Similarly, Helen's descent into the underworld, replete with an affair, does not reflect a change of emotional intensity but continues the linear progression of a dissatisfied woman. No new miseries...
...United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction is to have monitors on the ground in Iraq - exactly the argument used by the European allies against last December's bombing...
...Although the Dow later backed off the record high, the euphoria may be a product of a paradigm shift in the shaping of economic indicators. After all, it seems counterintuitive that wage inflation wouldn't increase with the ever-expanding job market. "But this may show some things about the new economy," says Baumohl. "Increased productivity means that even though new jobs are being added, the prices of consumer goods aren't rising. And a growing number of employees are being at least partly rewarded in ways that don't show up in hourly wage inflation figures - extra benefits, bonuses...
...hardly needs saying that boot camp is hardly a place for the thoughtful, but here solitude is almost mathematically impossible to find. Go to the latrine at three in the morning and you find two soldiers, up on the guard shift, polishing their boots in the shower and murmuring in Spanish. Go anywhere - I mean anywhere - without a "battle buddy" and you're at the mercy of any drill sergeant who happens by; technically you can be considered AWOL for walking past the barracks alone. Inside, there is someone everywhere; outside, the PX across the street is unattainable without...