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...absorb the shot with a smile and say excuse me I need to get out of this humidity it just trashes my hair. But if I dashed inside there’d only be more pity eyes, they’d be splayed out all over the foyer.Through my dread (my anger? I never should have come!) I heard her talking spell start to wind down. I blurted out, “Is it full up in there?”“Oh, yes, and it makes Reverend Lewis so happy. To be able to share Good News...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

That sense of responsibility has always been part of Winslet's makeup, although she says that in her 20s, she had to balance it with her dread of being thought an "arrogant young actor." Between 1993 and 1998, she kept a journal chronicling those uncertainties. "I've always been very, very aware of wanting to be understood as being the person that I really am," she says. So, partly in order to figure that out, she started to write, detailing the years-long arc of her relationship with a man 12 years her senior that began when she was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

With Fiat now in Chrysler's picture, though, there's more optimism than dread. Notes Sean McAlinden, vice president of research at the Center For Automotive Research in Ann Arbor: "The thing you have to remember about Chrysler is that it seems to have more lives than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who Owns Chrysler Now? | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...advertisers like Audi ("Progress is beautiful") and Ikea ("Embrace change"). Trying to make a buck off the zeitgeist is an old story, but these ads also capture a particular mood of today. America right now is like some kind of agitated subatomic particle holding two opposite charges at once: dread and excitement. Just so, these ads convey both desperation--someone, please, buy something!--and the thrilling sense that a big change is afoot in the country's mind-set. (See pictures of the best Obama inaugural merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Goes Washington | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood," he said, and yet he reminded us how deep it was, not only with war and loss and economic decline, but with doubt and dread and a "nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable and that the next generation must lower its sights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: Humility, Gratitude, Sacrifice | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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