Word: clingingness
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Perhaps. But here at Fifteen Minutes, we are anything but. Miserable wretches, most of us, clinging to some hope that writing for the mag will somehow serve as validation for our mistaken notions that we are cool...or at least cooler than the rest of the snivelling freaks that we...
In the most desperate moments of his life, a severely burned Sumner Redstone saved himself by clinging to a window ledge with his right handand counting to 10 over and over again as flames swept through his room in a Boston hotel fire. "My legs were burned to my arteries...
He isn't optimistic about the future, on either side. He sees Americans clinging to their Arab stereotypes -- the fat grasping sheik, the crazy fundamentalist bomber. Meanwhile, "most Arabs today, including cultivated ones, have no hope of any kind of cultural exchange between them and the West. The mood is...
But there remain prominent holdouts, including President Clinton. And without him action is impossible. Why are Clinton and several other world leaders resisting the growing pressure for action? Apparently they are still clinging to many of the myths, misperceptions and miscalculations that have combined with moral lethargy to paralyze the...
Baerwald's cast of misfits, misbegottens and woebegones are not merely marginal types. They live on both sides of the margin: under it, like bats clinging to the top of a cave, and above it, delineating it, marking off new limits for themselves to cross. Triage is inhabited by both...