Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strong--as much oak as flesh and blood. She moves with the heaviness of someone dragging large and fatal memories behind her like a full steamer trunk. She is, as the book puts it, "iron-eyed"; her gaze is an Old Testament judgment, her love a demon that can crush those it enfolds. The actress and the character share intelligence and passion, but in many particulars Sethe is the anti-Oprah. If Sethe were a talk-show host, she would stare down her guests and say, "You think you've had troubles...
...self-propelled, if adult-organized. A band plays Christian rock, and the teens let loose. An emcee asks how the See Yous went, and the answer is a prolonged roar. The kids bellow a tune with the unlikely lyrics of Romans 16: 20: "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." Someone asks Maize High sophomore Ashley Page, 16, how the day has gone. "Awesome," she says. Then she adds quickly, "But every day's an awesome day with...
...about 8 p.m., she passed George Stephanopoulos' office. The President was inside alone, and he beckoned her to enter. She told him that she had a crush on him. He laughed, then asked if she would like to see his private office... Ms. Lewinsky testified: "We talked briefly and sort of acknowledged that there had been a chemistry that was there before and that we were both attracted to each other and then he asked me if he could kiss me." Ms. Lewinsky said yes. In the windowless hallway adjacent to the study, they kissed. Before returning to her desk...
Anyone with a rooting interest in culture has surely had the experience of having a crush on an artist, of tearing through all of a novelist's books or rapidly buying all of a musician's CDs--the aesthetic equivalent of downing a pint of Haagen-Dazs--only to find oneself still hungry, frustrated with the limits of a canon. In the case of an artist with famously lost, botched or unfinished works, this hunger can be particularly keen. I know, having recently been driven to buy a bootlegged CD of material recorded for Smile, the legendarily unfinished Beach Boys...
Clinton did not mention the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which many believe will crush his party's chances of re-taking the people's house...