Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would force a child to eat his own vomit. He banned sexual activity between Peoples Temple members but was voraciously bisexual himself and obsessed with bragging about the size of his penis. He was addicted to drugs and had nurses bleed him and provide him with oxygen for imagined illnesses...
...Seldes refuses to allow the reader's heart to bleed for her. All actors face the temptation to cuddle up to the sense of failure, but "it is unprofessional to indulge these feelings." As for herself...
...even the similarities between the two great Russians are deceptive. Chekhov drew a bitingly comic profile of the follies that his provincial characters are prey to; yet he shared their pain. Turgenev fired off comic volleys that riddle his provincial characters' vanity and pretension; but when his people bleed, he casts a cold and worldly eye upon the scene. In Chekhov, longing is the arrow of love, usually un requited; in Turgenev, idle fantasy is the fuse of sex, equally unrequited. Boredom is a palpable force in Chekhov, more of an indifferent landscape in Turgenev...
...Voting for Barbara Ackermann just wouldn't have been enough," the former state rep said. "I wanted to bleed Dukakis." He wasn't alone...
...WANTED TO bleed him," said a thoroughly disgruntled former Massachusetts state representative last Wednesday morning, in explaining his vote for Edward J. King, former Massport director, now known as The Man Who Dumped the Duke...