Word: crave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even stopped pretending that a particular day's game interests me. I not only bypass the front page, but the box score too. While the rest of my body would rather be in bed, my fingers rush to page four, where the standings give me the immediate gratification I crave...
...easily tapped aggression. But killing is not instinctive; it is an acquired taste, something that grownups must pass on. Children also have a deep-rooted desire to please their elders. War satisfies both needs: to a child, a war is a fight with adult supervision. Because they so crave love from adults, children can be taught very quickly to hate. After that, killing is easier...
...sure, a lot of the gossip reported in Chicago and elsewhere is about people who are based in New York City or Los Angeles and who thereby attract national attention. "The people who crave the publicity in Chicago in the way the Trumps do," explains Zwecker, "aren't in his league financially. The people in his league financially go to bed at 9 p.m., lead a simpler life and don't care if they're in my column." Something of the same is true in the home of the bean and the cod, according to Boston Herald gossipist Norma Nathan...
...fact, Bush is so popular that he needs a sophisticated maintenance | program to sustain his high ratings. In a slick piece of reverse psychology, he strives for underexposure: while most politicians crave attention, Bush made a conscious decision before his Inauguration to avoid appearing regularly on the nightly news. He not only wants to lower expectations that a President can solve the nation's problems but he also fears that his re-election will be more difficult if the public wearies of his visage in the first few years. "People get tired of seeing anybody on television," says a senior...
Movie moguls crave good scripts, but they hate to pay for them. So goes the age-old gripe among disgruntled Hollywood screenwriters, but it took an outsider like columnist Art Buchwald to put the allegation to the test. In a star-studded courtroom drama, Buchwald cast a bright light on the machinations of Hollywood's power brokers. Last week a Los Angeles judge ruled that Paramount Pictures used Buchwald's script proposal as the basis for its 1988 blockbuster Coming to America and failed to pay him accordingly. Paramount plans to appeal...