Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, the Shah in exile will not want for comfort as he ponders his next move. The Annenberg estate, while only a temporary headquarters, would rival the opulence of, say, a Persian king. Its 200 verdant acres, surrounded by California desert, are reached by way of Frank Sinatra Drive. Electronically operated gates open onto a flower-flanked drive and the sprawling dusky pink volcanic-rock main mansion, with its five bedrooms and 6,400-sq.-ft. living room. The compound includes two five-bedroom guesthouses, a swimming pool, several lakes, and a nine-hole golf course, all maintained by some...
...dusty torpor of the soul that accommodates itself all tooeasilyto the relentless affluence of Scarsdale and Grosse Pointe, to a world of shopping malls and Little League coaches and bitching at the mailman. Even at its best, suburban life breeds a brand of insularity, an isolated arrogance of comfort, that forces its own visions of itself into small places, like bedrooms and garages. Small places and small horizons--no better way to chronicle this world of great, elastic satisfaction. And so if you stay there too long, your eyes start to go and the horizon closes in even more...
Given the new realities, those statistics could change without notice. The People's Republic may soon be complaining of U.S. neologisms, coinages, and other abuses. Like Americans, the Chinese can take comfort in H.L. Mencken's editorial, as valid today as it was 40 years ago: "As English spreads over the world, will it be able to maintain its present form? Probably not. But why should it? ... Stability in language is synonymous with rigormortis." In 1978, American prose continued to alter, irritate and entertain. To the purist, those characteristics may be evidence of deterioration. Certainly our language...
...with her. And the agreement is very important. For Khan's last album with Rufus, Streetplayer, the group operated under one management and Khan had another. The split widened and Khan struck out on her own. The songs she has assembled with the aid of her friends reflect her comfort and security with the new arrangement...
...trouble with the now pervasive clinical view of the holidays is that, along with offering undeserved comfort to unreconstructed Scrooges, it tends to confuse many perfectly healthy people about their own emotional condition. Even casual observation confirms that many weave through the holidays feeling vaguely like victims-acutely aware of the supposedly malignant pressures that the diagnosticians always talk about. No mystery here. With a consciousness razed by standard holiday pathology, even an intelligent adult may tend to construe the pressure as a symptom of something bad and imminent. In fact, that pressure is primarily only the moving power...