Word: contentedness
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Three Postcards is outwardly a work of serene, minimalist simplicity. Three women, no longer girls and not yet matrons, meet for a meal at a trendy restaurant. Some of their talk is about how much they matter to one another, but they do not communicate. Only in daydreams and memories...
For Merrill Lynch last week's accusations were a shock, even though the company was not accused of making any profits from the alleged insider dealing. It was still an end of innocence, since Vaskevitch was the firm's first investment banker to get caught up in the insider-trading...
Gambino. Traditionalists expect Thomas Gambino, 57, son of former Boss Carlo Gambino, the Mafia's last true godfather (he died of natural causes in 1976) to reclaim his family's leadership. A low-profile capo, or captain, Gambino avoids the flamboyant dress and behavior that so quickly drew attention to...
That seemed to defuse what otherwise might have been sharp criticism from Democrats campaigning for next month's congressional elections. Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods, a liberal running for the Senate, contented herself with this bland comment: "I'm not saying the President should have accepted (Gorbachev's offer). I...
A television advertisement for Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy demonstrates his affinity for his state's dairy-farming community by going directly to the source. The commercial shows the Senator, accompanied by two farmers, pasting Leahy bumper stickers on the sides of some contented cows. To make the point that Illinois...