Word: beckonings
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...It’s good for you,” the proprietor suggested, quoting the legendary advertisements that still beckon people off the streets and into Irish pubs...
...connection with a 1999 shooting at a New York City nightclub and, after a high-profile trial, this Friday was found not guilty on all counts. If he had been found guilty, he could have faced 15 years in prison. Now that he's a free man, the Hamptons beckon...
...friends say O'Connor's health is good, despite hand tremors. She made a hole-in-one while golfing on the weekend after the election decision. She's also hiring clerks for the next two terms. Still, family in Arizona and a house she and her husband built there beckon. As for Rehnquist, a widower, the dean of the University of Arizona law school denies that he's about to come on board. But people who know him think he's restless enough to leave the court if, they say, for example, he becomes romantically involved...
...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...