These are not, of course, imposed with the same violence as home, but the genesis of the global upheavals of which they are victims is unmistakeable.
For all the amusing raspberries Durang blows at melancholy, the play also provides a clever parallel to the seismic upheaval of industrialization, which the bewildered characters in Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" could neither stop nor fully understand, even as it rendered them and their world obsolete.
Jan L. Kardys just wants to find a group of like-minded single parents in Scarsdale who will get together to talk about books, ideas and the challenges teenagers present -- not the trauma and upheaval of divorce, which for her took place a decade ago.
Marketing is on the verge of a massive new upheaval, the likes of which we haven't seen since social media hit the web.
West German politicians of Merkel's generation were shaped by the culture wars that followed the upheavals of 1968, which didn't touch her at all.
Later, Jacobs would explain that he wanted to create "comfort and familiarity", in part as a response to the upheavals of Hurricane Sandy, which ruined his own home.
And in Tokyo, a deaf teenage girl named Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi) spins through the emotional upheavals of adolescence, which are intensified both by her disability — or, more precisely, the obtuse way other people respond to it — and by the aftershocks of her mother's death.
The economy, thanks largely to soya exports, has emerged from the last major economic and social upheavals of 2001-2002, wasch walsolso followed by a period of inflation.
As it was coming into its adulthood, a key challenge came courtesy of the anti-establishment upheavals of 1968, which shook all of France.
At the end of this era of upheaval, which the White House considers as sweeping as the changes that transformed Europe after the Berlin Wall fell, success or failure may well be judged by the question of whether Iran realizes its ambitions to become the region's most powerful force.
