Word: blush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like a scarlet letter. And the town burghers, still cocooned in monochrome propriety, are perplexed, vexed, vengeful...
...video of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony is absorbed by the public, Americans will have to ask themselves an important question. No, not whether he should remain in office but, rather, Is the tape embarrassing enough to dislodge one of these blush-inducing groaners from...
...know a lie when they see and hear one, no matter what David Kendall says. The supporting documents, meanwhile, will be aimed more at the groin. Much of material Starr left out of his report is, as Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah described it, "stuff that makes me blush, makes me sick to my stomach." Is America any keener to see it yet? Not according to a CNN/TIME poll released Friday, in which 67 percent said it was a bad idea to broadcast Clinton's video testimony. Considering the ugly mood on the Hill right now, however, that...
...cooking about half the time. The rest of the week it's usually fast food. This [pizza, clam chowder, salad] is a lot healthier." Although just a gourmet-pizza toss from the gas pump, Foodini's is decidedly upscale: light jazz, vodka-blush pasta sauce and not a microwave burrito in sight...
Although at first blush this seems a noble vision, it is in fact a deeply paternalistic view--benevolent paternalism, perhaps, but paternalism all the same. Epps, speaking as a representative of the administration, knows Harvard and understands how it operates. Students can only hope to match their talents to the existing structure of this institution. The goal as he envisions it is not to enable students to shape either their experiences or the College itself, but to enable us to use the existing possibilities as best...