Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flock to talks by Thich Nhat Hanh, a French-based, socially engaged Vietnamese monk whose book Living Buddha, Living Christ sold 100,000 hardcover copies. In cyberspace the Manhattan-based Asian Classics Institute has transferred 100,000 deteriorating pages of scripture from Tibetan block prints onto the Internet. Mirabai Bush, a devotee of the non-Tibetan Vipassana school, teaches Monsanto executives nonreligious meditation techniques out of Williamsburg, Mass. Since 1988, reports Morreale, the number of English-language Buddhist teaching centers has jumped from 429 to more than...
...some Presidents struggle to keep their physical frailties secret. Eisenhower called his first heart attack digestive upset. Kennedy played touch football with over-compensating vigor rather than give a hint of his Addison's disease. Bush got no sympathy for throwing up in Japan and no understanding when an aide blamed thyroid medicine for his cluelessness during the '92 campaign. Dole's remarking that "Some of the things that we read about don't return as quickly as advertised" after prostate surgery just reminded...
...conspiracy of Vince Foster's death is finally no longer a conspiracy, according to Kenneth Starr. Of course, he might be in on it with them. So see some of 'them' in the odd thriller The Parallax View (1974), with Warren Beatty as a bush-league reporter snared in conspiratorial quicksand by the murder of a senator. The commission men in the dimly lit hall deliver the movie's stock line: "Although I'm certain that it will do nothing to discourage the conspiracy peddlers, there is no evidence of any wider conspiracy. None whatsoever...
...People from the bush," sometimes speak with more of a drawl than in the city, says Rickard, who is an urban dweller and native Australian himself...
...good at his job as an E.R. physician in the Sacramento area that he was recruited for an unpaid three-month stint caring for Cambodian refugees at a bush camp in eastern Thailand. Treating the injuries resulting from Cambodia's civil war reinforced his feelings about gun violence. "We saw 20 or 30 cases of battle trauma a day," he says...