Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Of course, the movies started driving toward all this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a...
Through most of an eventful and extraordinarily successful life, Henry Luce--the co-founder of TIME and its undisputed leader for nearly 40 years--was not a wholly contented man. He was unsuccessful in his marriages; intermittently estranged from members of his family; frequently dismayed by the directions in which...
As potential Quad improvements go, these are just the tip of the iceberg--other possibilities include a student-run Contented Workers Table Grape Plantation (complete witk big-screen TVs and roving masseuses in the fields) and a Quad militia, charged with the armed takeover and subjugation of Lesley College. I...
Because of that one undeniable truth, Seinfeld finds himself in the curious position of facing, at a relatively tender age (43), a sort of retirement. In this regard, you could say Jerry Seinfeld is the Bill Clinton of comedy, the boy wonder as lame duck, if only, that is, Seinfeld...
Eventually, Rice and Dahl became skilled, contented gardeners, enjoying contemplative weekends in the sun, raising a cornucopia of produce and preserving much of it for the winter. They turned their attention to cultivating friendships--becoming close friends with a nearby farm couple, joining a country club and getting to know...