Word: borede
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In three years in the Middle East, though, Hull saw nothing to compare with what he sees in U.S. cities. "When Palestinians or Israelis pull the trigger, at least they can articulate a cause they're fighting for. In Chicago or L.A., you've got 13-year-olds shooting people...
But some guys do get wise. Something about all the guns and death and arrests just adds up. "I was scared I'd have to shoot somebody," says Juan Vanga, 22, who took a three-minute beating from five guys to get out of the Latin Kings in Chicago last...
"To rejoice in objectivity is to rejoice in divesting one's self of self; to lay claim to objectivity is to lie," she writes in the introduction to her excellent collection of essays, The Astonishing World. "Disinterestedness is an excellent thing in a Supreme Court justice...but a disinterested writer...
Mrs. Fisher (Joan Plowright), a crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie...
For once the dust jacket gets it right: What It Takes "does for politicians what Tom Wolfe did for astronauts in The Right Stuff." Left unsaid -- and in this 1,047-page doorstop of an epic only the dust jacket is terse -- was precisely Wolfe's accomplishment in The Right...