Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school, I was never anxious about getting injured when I went to a soccer game. Barring any freak sideline collision, my metal folding chair was relatively safe from harm. I took my high school sports seriously; I posted the schedules for all the teams on my bulletin board and lugged around my padded chair, which turned any field into the perfect place for a spectator. I admired my schoolmates' resolve and their long hours of practice, how they fit in time to go to the gym or go running between chem lab write-ups and political-science review sheets...
...dancers) and has an infant child, and his album reflects his new domesticity. ("So what does your wife call you?" the Artist is asked. "She calls me many things," he replies.) Emancipation champions monogamy--especially on the swaying jam Friend, Lover, Mother/Wife. The Artist also seems anxious about the world his child will inherit--several songs, including New World, deal with technology's dangers...
...received a bad score. It's entirely conceivable; those feelings aren't unknown to me. In fact, I would be surprised if more than a small minority of Harvard students were entirely comfortable in their intellectual skin. I like to call it the "I'm the mistake" syndrome--that anxious, ephemeral pang we all entertain for a moment and then dismiss, only to feel guilty that we seriously entertained...
Above all, the President must turn aside the seductive wiles of congressional Democrats anxious to court him and reach out to craft a truly national government. Remember Winston Churchill's admonition: "In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity...
...Stars as a "love letter" to his mom GENA ROWLANDS, and, he says, "she sent me one with her amazing performance." Meanwhile, EMILIO ESTEVEZ directed and starred with dad MARTIN SHEEN in The War at Home. All three offspring admit, however, that it did mean they were a tad anxious about the finished product. "My other forays into directing were not fruitful," says Estevez (Remember Men at Work?). "I couldn't hit less than a triple on this one." Fortunately, Sheen was moved to tears when he first saw the film. "He agrees it was the best work...