Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school, I was assigned Plath at about the same time I discovered Tori Amos, and, like many, I clung onto both of them like a die hard indie fan. But then, growing up, realizing we demanded odd things of love, our parents and our world, we tend to brush off these brilliant-brave complainers as if their long struggles with and against masculinity, motherhood and the other arrangements of modern life were nothing bigger than our own childhood naivetes...
...answer to the earlier question, I have no idea how much musical promise we brush past in Sever Hall each day. But I know that their emergence and growth is something awaiting discovery. Weinstein, Filip and Tardy have
...course, in certain less-focused instances, rage can also earn you a bitchin' toothache, as Thomas has experienced. "It's all better now, though," he said. "I could brush yesterday morning without excrutiating pain...
...several weeks' worth of rice for their families. In the diary confiscated by police, Rounds chronicled excursions through Honduras, Mexico and Puerto Rico. "He wants long pants, and he's unfortunately not very pliable," he wrote about one boy. "Can I change his mind? Taught him to brush his teeth last night, a habit that I'm sure he won't make a lifetime commitment...
Gretchen isn't infatuated with the President. She's just enjoying her brush with history, a fling she says she might tell her grandkids about. (Linda Tripp suggested the same thing to Monica.) If only Monica had been so clear eyed. She made the mistake of thinking she was in love with a self-involved, pudgy 50-year-old who had a wife and a killer schedule that left no time for champagne, candlelight or pillow talk. If she'd realized it was the presidency she was swooning over, not the President, and spent more time pushing her ideas...