Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsessive prosecutor he is, Starr wanted to cover all the angles. And so Mondale ended up contributing a single word to the Starr report: "correctly" -- as in "Ms. Lewinsky correctly surmised that the President was meeting with Ms. Mondale." Was Starr trying to make the proverbial, subtle-as-a-brick inference of a Clinton-Mondale affair? That's certainly the implication of footnote 739 -- Lewinsky's jealous comment to Tripp -- which isn't even referenced in the text. Still, her presence in the report has given rise to something Mondale is very used to by now -- a lot of gossip...
When the Soviet Union was disintegrating during the late autumn of 1991, a band of disillusioned demonstrators gathered in Red Square. Bobbing along in their midst, under the shelter of the Kremlin's looming brick walls, was a placard that read 70 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. The accusation was an angry and poignant truth. But then Russia was reborn under the old tricolor flag and set a new course toward not just reform but total transformation. And now, with the collapse of the economy and the paralysis of the government, that hopeful path has also run into...
...Back up. Rewind. There was light when you arrived; when you got here it was still before nightfall, and the New Jersey sky was the flat bluish-gray of an old fluorescent light. Riding in your car in the half-light, you came to a comfortable brick house on a comfortable, suburban, Truman Show-ish street; walking up, the door wasn't locked, it wasn't even closed, and it creaked open wider when you knocked. This ain't Compton, this ain't the Queensbridge projects, but this is where hip-hop lives in the 9-8: this...
Will you find your true self, alone with a back-pack on the highways and byways of the world? Maybe. Free from the constant influx of ideas that ooze around our red brick homes we can think about ourselves and be pleasantly self centered without constant distraction...
Kids, if you want to be famous, don't try stand-up comedy. Sure, it worked for Jerry Seinfeld and Drew Carey and, at least for a while, Ellen DeGeneres, but at what cost? Traveling from town to town, standing in front of a brick wall, yelling like a crazy person, delivering the same jokes night after night--what kind of life is that? Being a comic is being in show business only in the way that being a bowler is being in professional sports. And much like a bowler, you will have groupies, but they will look like...