Word: basks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST LADY-IN-waiting celebrate the last night of 1992? The same way they have spent every New Year's Eve since 1981, when Bill and Hillary Clinton joined fellow rising stars at Hilton Head Island for a RENAISSANCE WEEKEND of high-minded chat and a chance to bask in one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile Planet" to "Building an Inner Life...
...decaying grandeur of Venice, it is the transience of power and glory. The romance surrounding the accession of Bill Clinton is destined to be ephemeral -- politics and poetry, by their very nature, cannot coexist for long. But for a moment, an American tourist amid the stones of Venice can bask in the awareness that his troubled nation has embraced the future and that the Old World is witnessing this leap of political faith with covetous eyes...
...unpaid would suddenly achieve the glory of champions, are utterly gone. Sure, the unsung heroes of team handball will still have their moment on the podium. And a modestly compensated athlete with little chance of a medal, such as U.S. table-tennis player Sean O'Neill, will nonetheless bask in the chance to compete...
Before you graduate, be sure to drop by the Thursday afternoon office hours of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. There, you'll be able to bask in his distinctive accent and unique taste in clothing. The dean, who also has a top-notch singing voice, appears to be particularly fond of bow ties, hats and red carnations...
...feel good about their infidelities, as Heyn's fluid narrative suggests. Rather, the news is that after 30 years of battling to shore up women's self-esteem and break down entrenched sex roles, the feminist movement has achieved nothing. That women have learned nothing. That women still bask in a sense of worthlessness that sounds ominously like Betty Friedan's "problem with no name." If all of this is true, feminists should regard this book with considerable alarm and demand that the problem be explored systematically (Heyn readily admits that her sampling is not scientific) to diagnose the cause...