Word: die
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...said that ACT would look into locating funding for a single year, and then try to "spin off" the program into another agency or a school. Cambridge Community Services, a program of which AC. is a part, has previously employed this strategy with some success. "Some of them do die," Gold said. "But some of them flourish...
After the reading. Montague said he hoped that listeners would "feel provoked and...think about poetry in general. Poetry is one of the few proofs that we have that we can make things that are permanent. People are born, people die. A really good poem seems to hold...
Sherwin B. Nuland is clinical professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. His book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter won the 1994 National Book Award for nonfiction...
...stray from domesticity and tend to die prematurely. Women are victimized by both of these predilections and devote their leftover lives to regrets, resentments and needlework...
...famous for not smiling. In a lovely moment from Go West, a tough cowpoke orders him at gunpoint to smile; after considering whether he'd rather die, Keaton fingers the corners of his mouth into an awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...