Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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My Name Is Joe basically traces the implicitly painful and Damoclean progress of the recovering alcoholic. It's not like there are regular scenes of stare-offs with bottles, or moments of temptation and ultimate white-knuckled resolve in front of seedy liquor stores next to check cash-ins. Loach...
But the men don't seem in a rush to move anywhere. Partly this is their engagement in the process. It is also something else. When the three talk about their "special" relationship, they are hinting at how fortunate it is that they can work together instead of apart. Says...
It was a disaster. It wasn't that he looked like the Creature from the Black Lagoon or that we had nothing to talk about, but it was horribly uncomfortable. Our online exchanges had been about deep stuff: Did I believe in God? What did dreams of death mean? But...
"The dead weight of the past lay across him like a toppled statue," a dejected cop reflects blearily, well short of the end of Robert Harris' new thriller. He could be speaking for Russia. Our cop is bone tired, trying to track the lurching progress of Fluke Kelso, an academic...
If Princeton holds off Dartmouth, Harvard is guaranteed to be no less than one game out of first place with two victories this weekend. However, one loss could spell disaster for Harvard, whose margin of error all but disappeared after its losses at Yale and Brown last weekend.