It depicts the moral and personal compromises necessary for survival, or as one character says, " what abnormal times do to normal people ."
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Under the watchtowers and army guard posts, men and women collected groceries from the settlement office, determined to maintain normal routines in abnormal times.
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A fit describes an abnormal time when one cannot control the laughter or one s body, sometimes leading to seizures or a brief period of unconsciousness.
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It's " a very insane way of living, but these are abnormal times, " said one mother who visits her children studying in Taiwan every other week.
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It occurs just before the end of the first act of " The Memory of Water, " the new play by Shelagh Stephenson at the Manhattan Theater Club, and it has a raw spontaneity that captures perfectly the idea of " what normal people do in abnormal times, " as one character has said earlier.
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.. . instead of being dependent for earnings upon a single industry, would own three separate and distinct lines of business, so that in normal times the interest and sinking funds on its bonds could be earned by any one of these independent lines, while in abnormal times the consolidation would have three chances instead of one to meet its obligations and pay dividends.
