Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic Don McLean tune, which he titled Bye, Bye Amer'ca Online. ("So bye bye to Amer'ca Online/ Drove my modem to a domain and it's working just fine./ And good old geeks are cheering users offline/ Saying this'll be the day that they die.") Like most amusing online spore, it flew around the Net, causing a number of people to E-mail Cassell their thanks. One of them became Cassell's live-in girlfriend. "So I guess you could say AOL changed my life," he admits. Which might explain why he doesn't do the obvious...
...sensation among the actors is Pfeiffer, who boldly taps a well of fury deeper and more poisonous than anything in the histrionic "In the Company of Men." "We're not going to be sad," she swears at the film's conclusion. "We're going to be angry until we die...
...fact, Carter, in contrast to The Times, reads this story not as a conflict between nations, but as an effort by a ruling elite to stay in power in the face of a crumbling economy and infrastructure. He even suggests that the elite in power would let their people die rather than step down. In sum, Carter believes that the North is opening up just enough to get help with the famine but not enough to destabilize the current regime...
...great hope for this latest love, reportedly confiding in a friend the day before her death, "For the first time in my life I can say I am really happy...I again feel loved." These words strike the ear as naively trusting, almost childlike. For a woman fated to die an imminent, hideous death, they have the ring of unbearable pathos...
...order's Home for the Dying in Calcutta also attracted criticism. Unlike in modern hospices in the West, the dying at the mission home are not provided with pain-killing drugs. In November 1996 a German volunteer questioned one of Teresa's nuns. "I have heard you don't give any medicines," he said. The nun replied, "This is not a treatment center. This is a place where the dying can die with dignity...