Word: affectionately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But while the lobbyists were making their rounds, EchoStar executives abruptly announced that negotiations with Murdoch had stalled, stymied by the media mogul's insistence that EchoStar switch to a Murdoch-approved descrambling technology. Some industry observers contend the technology issue is only a smoke screen for other problems faced...
Sedaris speaks of all the figures in Naked with great enthusiasm, particularly his family members. Describing the genesis of the book, he claims that "for my mom, it was a gesture of affection. These are stories the way she told stories." His childhood in rural North Carolina apparently offered him...
The script (by David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick and Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must end it but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. It diverts us by showing each man dealing with a dangerous...
The book is not, of course, all playful ruminations. Bauby writes movingly of the suffering and depression his condition induced. He describes painful bedsores, and flies walking with impunity across his face. He tells of his 93-year-old father's phone calls to "a son he knows too well...
Most of us have grown to have a wry affection for our houses, regardless of the initial tragedy of the computer slips with neatly typed house names. For no apparent reason we defend our dining halls and often get a little defensive about food quality. Perhaps it's all just...