Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever, few of his supporters are equally ready to acquiesce in such lese majeste. (When I ask a group of Tibetan officials if this one will be the last Dalai Lama, they all say anxiously, "No, no.") And even relatives have sometimes found it hard to countenance his policy of forgiving the Chinese (he once described Mao as "remarkable," has referred to himself as "half Marxist, half Buddhist," and has stepped back from his original demands of independence to calling only for an autonomous "Zone of Peace"). The pressure on him to forswear his policy of nonviolence has intensified...
...feminists. What Barney calls "the true story of my wasted life" may seem undisciplined and chronologically impaired. In fact his memoir is cunningly designed for maximum suspense and beaucoup laughs. Going on 67, Barney has total recall of old grudges, past loves and 40-year-old hockey scores. But ask him what he uses to strain spaghetti and he goes blank...
...what about content, I ask him. When will content be king? "Maybe," Dell suggested gently, "the content is commerce." The king is dead. Long live the king...
...surgery. Extraordinary words in a Charleston heavy with the history she and Ball share. Even more extraordinary are the words Ball spoke to Dunn and her mother Katie Roper on a segment of Oprah never televised. "Words are not enough. But I'm sorry," he said. "I want to ask your forgiveness...
...sold about 800,000 copies the first week, and it's not just his bosses at Capitol Records who hope Brooks keeps moving the product. Country needs a hit. Country needs...something. Like a lonesome cowpoke in some nasal old lament, it feels the redneck blues, and don't ask...