Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doonan comes across at the start as being tastelessly self-important. Dig: "What kind of neurotic, exhibitionist psychopathology made me choose a career cavorting around arranging merchandise and props in full view of the rest of humanity?" You enter the book with a decided intention to dislike him. But give yourself about five pages, and you will be more than won over, you will want to intern for him-for free. In an atmosphere rife with political correctness, Doonan never veers from the unapologetic identity of, as he puts it confidently, "a pansy." The difficulty of being...
...have been touted as possible successors to the first two tenors, but so far they have had about as much luck as Joan Rivers had in giving Johnny Carson the push. Roberto Alagna, 34, was heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into a serious stage...
...three days. The lander, with robust solar panels to keep it humming, could last three months. But even if the systems do not survive that long, their work could be profound. After all, scientists have spent years studying just the Martian skin; this will be their first chance to dig a little deeper...
...these problems in the book are really a reflection of the problems involved in tackling such a topic as mass violence. There are no real answers, and the deeper you dig, the more complex the issues become. As Professor Minow herself puts it, "There are no tidy endings following mass atrocity." If we are to tell someone's story, whose story shall we tell? Whose perspective should we use when trying to judge the effects of the trials? Which group will be represented--victims, bystanders or perpetrators? The boundaries between these classifications are often blurred. Which individuals should we select...
...weren't sharp and we need to not wait until the third period because sooner or later we're going to put ourselves in a hole that we can't dig out of," Stone said. "We need to be sharp from the first drop of the puck until the final whistle...