Word: beckon
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...perverse little duck; it insists that you exercise your civic identity so that you can enjoy your individual identity. And that's what we do most of the time. There are occasions, such as wars, depressions, Lucky Lindy heroics, the deaths of great figures that beckon us back to the unified entity. Generally, though, we are the United States of Solitude--private celebrators of Emerson's self-reliance who, like the melancholy lady, vant to be alone...
...ABYSS and 21) TITANIC Director James Cameron is the anti-Kathie Lee Gifford. While the siren Gifford's TV commercials beckon vacationers to join her floating fun, Cameron is Neptune with a grudge, punishing anyone dumb enough to board his ships of fools. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, star of The Abyss, also appears this summer in 22) THE PERFECT STORM. She's jinxed, matey...