Word: beggared
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...four-foot tall, crippled, drunk beggar works the line. He's not having much luck. Some of the VJ wannabees are getting testy. An MTV staffer, charged with keeping the line orderly, observes the commotion with a smirk. Gesturing toward the hunch-backed bum, he launches into a sidewalk sermon...
Flynn--who has battled a scandal involving campaign finance improprieties in the last months--admitted the difficulties of the past "beggar thy neighbor policy" among the 15 EU member states...
Flynn--who has battled a scandal involving campaign finance improprieties in the last months--admitted the difficulties caused by the past "beggar thy neighbor policy" among the 15 EU member states...
...international affairs but because herchoices are a sterile marriage of convenience withSpain or shallow wedlock with a Frenchtransvestite. She denounces sex not to reign moreeffectively, but only when her lover is revealedas a married man. Given that the real QueenElizabeth once stated flatly that she "wouldrather be a beggar and single than a queen andmarried," the film's presentation of Elizabeth'saversion not to the institution of marriage butmerely to incompatible mates seems simplyinnaccurate...
...there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas Kiss, opens in New York City this week. Starring Liam Neeson, Hare's play examines the aftermath of the episode when words finally failed Wilde: the trials for "gross indecency" (1890s British legalese for homosexuality) that ended in his imprisonment and ruin but also assured his permanent status as a gay-rights...