Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many other candidates present on the ballot but not yet on the lips of Cambridge political pundits, they can comfort themselves with the fact that the results of this election are unpredictable...
...greater challenge was to stay mentally fit. He found comfort in recollections of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's classic novel about a prisoner locked in solitary confinement. After a while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave...
...Army and steadily rose through the ranks. A virtually unpronounceable surname (shah-lee-kash-VEE-lee) and a reputation for passing on to subordinates the credit that more flamboyant officers reserve for themselves have earned him the diminutive "General Shali." He made his first international impact running Operation Provide Comfort to feed Iraq's Kurds and protect them from Saddam Hussein. During a tour this spring through the former Soviet-bloc capitals, says an aide, Shalikashvili "showed he's as much diplomat as general...
Barristers might take some comfort from the fact that Hollywood studios are tripping over themselves to film the best-selling novels of John Grisham and Scott Turow, both lawyers. This summer Universal Studios paid $3.75 million for Grisham's next book, which hasn't even been written yet. But this may be only a little comfort. Perhaps inspired by The Firm, a new movie is in the works once again featuring a young attorney in a large firm who discovers he is working for . . . Satan. The film's title is Devil's Advocate...
Today, television news is the P.T. Barnum, the Coney island the dancing lady and the diving horse, step night up, ladies and gents, it's live, it's true, it's too disgusting to believe. The viewer can release his or her passions, desires in the comfort and safety of a half-hour, non-interactive, for your-pleasure-only freak show...