Word: clingingness
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Does Maurice love her? Of course he does. Does he keep his affections avuncular? Yes, he does - though he's not uninterested in peering through the transom when she sheds her clothes at the life-drawing class. Is O'Toole - skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings...
However, it is the morose and chubby Bootie, Murray’s nephew, who really manages to stir things up. A college dropout from rural upstate New York, Bootie comes to the city clinging to a fierce, somewhat naïve Emersonian ideal of autodidactic self-reliance.
One community that might be expected to ask how much Chavez had done for them would be the residents of Tacagua, a dilapidated neighborhood clinging to a mountainside near Caracas, where many homes are made of scraps of tin pieced together. Here, gang violence and drugs are part of everyday...
I write in response to your request for information regarding the incident that befell Professor L***. All seemed peaceful at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater the night before Commencement. The house was packed, but I noticed Professor L***. A Camus-esque fly was making lazy circles in front of the...
Game Over? Re "The End of a Revolution" [Oct. 16]: the Republican majority in Congress has bullied, lied, changed rules, twisted arms and done everything possible to retain power, without consideration for the minority Democrats or the U.S. as a whole. The G.O.P. has violated the principles it once stood...