Word: bloomings
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...these eight tales, frisky and wryly sympathetic Bloom, a Connecticut psychotherapist, introduces a heterodox band of characters that includes a girl awaiting transsexual surgery at a "gender reassignment" clinic. Bloom's specialty is flipping a taboo on its head. "I didn't want to shock God," says a woman who has made love in a synagogue. "What would have shocked God? Two more naked people, trying to wrestle time to a halt?" Maybe three...
...decade defined by these gas-guzzling kings of the road. Ford has also become something of a flagship car company, navigating the new economy skillfully, progressively and profitably while avoiding some of the exploding-gas-tank embarrassments that have plagued rival GM. Now it's got to keep the bloom on the rose and its SUVs flying off the lots...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...
...record number of executions, largely without looking back, and in the course of three weeks, he's considered two cases for leniency." On the other hand, if Texas executes Graham, and he is exonerated posthumously, Bush's reputation as a glib executioner could achieve its full bloom...
...What our donors have given us is nothing less than the freedom to bloom," he said...