When a major upheaval hits, time slows to a crawl and life is experienced in slow motion, as if your own body is ambivalent about being alive after the loss of a loved one or a way of life.
The food company's chief executive, William R. Johnson, said the deal was a natural next step that wouldn't lead to big upheavals any time soon.
For me, the protesting tumult outside of DOJ seemed to have a familiar feel ring to it, resonating with previous mass protests of the civil rights and anti-war variety and the more I thought about it the more I kept hearing Bob Dylan's poetic paean to these social upheavals: "The Times They are a-Changin'".
He warned that the reforms represented "upheaval" at a time when the health service needed stability.
But the upheaval at the time was momentous and something we could be about to see again.
It should almost go without saying that such a story would have been quite literally unthinkable before the social upheaval of that time engulfed America.
Three decades after the Brixton riots where police became the focus of community anger, the south London district is once again at the centre of social upheaval – and this time anger is being directed at landlords.
It can't have helped her clarity of vision that she was going through a personal upheaval at the time, divorcing her husband, the Italian film-maker Tao Ruspoli.
Last Friday, as the magazine was closing and the news from Rome grew more grave, we talked with Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, a physicist who decided to study for the priesthood in the early seventies as he sought to understand the political and spiritual upheaval of the time.
*The U.S.O.C. is also trying to stem upheaval at a time when, Olympic officials concede, the Olympic movement has lost some of its luster -- as measured by declining television ratings in the United States, because of international drug scandals, and the embarrassment of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal.
