Word: breathing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason I ask this question is because it is time we took a deep breath and thought hard about what the Lewinsky scandal is all about. We need to pause between the expressions of outrage and disgust, take a step back and a healthy dose of historical perspective. We also need to think about the lies politicians tell us every day, and why it is that only the ones about sex seem to be grounds for removal from office these days...
...success as a writer came quickly. She graduated from Barnard College in 1990 and earned an M.F.A. from Brown three years later. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, a semi-autobiographical tale of a Haitian girl reunited with her mother in the U.S., was published in 1994. The lyrical and haunting short-story collection Krik? Krak! came out the following year. And earlier this year, Danticat won the literary lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat...
...Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...
...strict currency controls and save the embattled Malaysian ringgit simply by removing it from the fray. The theory is attractive, especially to the prickly Mahathir: An inconvertible currency can't come under attack by evil foreign speculators, and that frees the safely walled-in government to take a deep breath, lower its internal interest rates, and pull itself out of recession by stimulating domestic growth -? without subjecting its every move to the brutish vagaries of the global marketplace...
...wait on Monday. The day began with an NBC poll showing Clinton's job approval at an all-time high, 70%. The markets were happy too: the Dow jumped 150 points. The weather in Washington was baffled, raining and shining and raining again through air that defied you to breath it. On "Monica beach," the 50-yd. stretch of White House gravel where the TV reporters do their stand-ups, 35 bright umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms, and the pressroom was packed despite a complete absence of news. Outside the White House, a man was arrested after he cut his throat...