Word: brooding
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...proves to be an athletic lover, which is fortunate, since the couple's bed is 75 ft. in the air. But he is not much more sensitive to inter-primate relationships than a suit-wearing human male. Hoeg causes Madelene to brood, with the gluey profundity that clots his novel: "Deep inside, for the first time in her life, she came to terms with the fact that even the one you love you cannot ever fully understand...
This year, Harvard's contingent was a diverse brood hailing from the river and the Quad. Winthrop, which beat Mather to gain the IM soccer title, represented the Crimson, while Cabot, which beat Leverett to secure both Harvard football IM titles, fielded the championship football teams...
...retrospective of her work that runs through Jan. 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Romantic melancholy is Goldin's true north, the mood she always returns to. Her friends laugh and party. They show off their tattoos and tutus. But they also brood and question the dead air with their eyes. They die from AIDS. In her self-portraits Goldin shows the injuries of a serious beating at the hands of a boyfriend--bruises are the regalia of romance here--and follows herself through drug and alcohol rehab. If these are party people...
...Daughter of Sunshine") was sitting in her enclosure at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo when a three-year-old toddler, in the uncontrolled exuberance common to his species, fell 18 ft. into the area, knocking himself out. Although his lack of fur showed he was not one of her brood, and Koola, her daughter, was clinging to her side, Binti gathered the boy gently in her arms and took him to the door where most of his kind usually gathered. The humans, after retrieving the boy, went, well, ape. Binti became a heroine of the purest sort: mute, unassuming, expecting nothing...
Certainly, second wives, bent on protecting their own brood, have more moral authority than the men who have already left one brood behind. But even they may not be any match for market forces. New York City is considering a proposal from investment bankers at Morgan Stanley to get immediate payments to first families by selling high-interest bonds based on the assets of deadbeat parents. The Mommy-munis would be backed by the full force of the child-support-collection apparatus...