Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those of us who shiver at the thought of the destruction of Israel can no longer afford to couch our arguments in cold, calculating terms of Realpolitik. If we rely on these obsolete arguments, we will lose...
...says he was "notorious for staying at work all night and grabbing a few hours of sleep in my office." His record: 78 hours on the job with 13 hours of intermittent naps. Today, as Sciences editor, Alexander enjoys more regular hours, but his new office still has a couch, just in case...
...date. What middle-aged woman would mind being romanced by gorgeous James Spader? His face is a bouquet of sensitive sensuality; he proved he was a good listener as the impotent confessor in sex, lies, and videotape. And what young fellow wouldn't care to wake up on a couch with Susan Sarandon's head in his lap? From The Rocky Horror Picture Show through Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, The Hunger and Bull Durham, she has been the American cinema's beacon of seductive intelligence: our own Statue of Libertine...
Often it's just as important to reach the parents as it is to entertain the youngsters. One morning Christensen peeked into a floor lounge and saw a woman sitting in a chair, reading a magazine; a man -- perhaps her husband -- was on the couch, intent on a novel. Stubs asked gently, "Mind if I come in? I need to catch up on some paperwork." He sat on the couch and starting ripping sheets of legal paper off a pad, crumpling them up and stuffing them into his doctor's bag. He soon piqued the adults' curiosity. "Office work...
...grandchildren: "Rabbit wonders how the Dalai Lama is doing, after all that exile. Do you still believe in God, if people keep telling you you are God?" The Dalai Lama has been in the news, and Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues to interest Rabbit, who later, in the hospital after an angioplasty on his clogged arteries, tries to imagine life after his death and fails. He cannot shake the impression that his hometown "and all the world beyond are just frills...