Word: desmond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enticingly. Janice, a single mother who tells anyone who will listen that she hasn't had sex in three years, agrees to go out with a motorcycle cop who has been pursuing her. Just a casual dinner date at the local hotel, he promises. "Get a room," she says. Desmond, the longtime butler to a wealthy industrialist, makes a confession. Years ago, the boss's third wife found out about his philandering and used Desmond to take revenge. Guess...
...Though Carsey and Werner are not exactly groundbreakers, their shows have brought a less frenetic, more naturalistic style to the sitcom genre. But Grand (created by Michael Leeson, who wrote The War of the Roses) is packed with plot twists and gag lines, most of them leeringly lame. ("Desmond, have you ever been intimate when the two of you knew you weren't in love?" "I've been intimate when the three of us knew we weren't in love.") The show strives to be a wacky send-up of soap operas, but it lacks the deadpan wit of Mary...
Four of HRAAA's pro-divestment candidates have won Board seats in recent years, including South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. Critics have charged that the Young Report was an attempt to keep any others from being elected, while University officials have said they merely want to provide voters with better information about nominees...
...five previously published stories, appeared in 1984. Now, at last, comes Vineland, Pynchon's first novel in nearly 17 years, and the faithful can again begin the quest for runic meanings, preferably hidden. And right up at the top of the second page of text, something interesting glimmers: "Desmond was out on the porch, hanging around his dish, which was always empty because of the blue jays who came screaming down out of the redwoods and carried off the food in it piece by piece...
...called it a Christmas pilgrimage to the Holy Land. But Archbishop Desmond Tutu has never allowed his religious calling to prevent him from actively engaging in politics in South Africa, his home, and he behaved no differently abroad. To the studied discomfort of the Israeli government, which maintains close ties to Pretoria, Tutu used his visit to the Jewish state to air some outspokenly pro-Palestinian views...