Word: dreading
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...also, from the outset, much possessed by death. Warhol's multiple- image disasters of the early '60s based on news photos of fatal car wrecks are suffused with dread and compassion beneath their icily casual surface. Such works looked amazingly raw, frank and direct when they were made. More than 20 years later, they still...
Goodwin registers maternal disapproval rather than disgust about the incident. She takes a similar tone when dealing with J.F.K. the philanderer. His compulsive womanizing, says Goodwin, was a symptom of his dread of intimacy and his fear of early death. He suffered from Addison's disease. But previous accounts of Kennedy hanky-panky portray an insensitive Regency buck claiming sexual entitlements...
...there the similarity ends. Five minutes of every Captain Power show will be devoted to battle scenes in which viewers can take part in the campaign against the villainous Lord Dread. Wielding a toy spaceship called the PowerJet XT-7, a child at home can electronically duel with onscreen enemies...
...child's imagination." In their defense, toymakers contend that the new devices prompt children to dream up creative strategies. One thing is for sure: the new toys should provide more than enough stimulation for parents as they listen to the vivid sound effects of junior blasting away at Lord Dread...
...fear is not of incapacitation but of that dreadful "W" word: Watergate. However, it comes to the same thing. All over Washington last week there was a sickening feeling of "here we go again," a dread of another orgy of public self-flagellation, of deepening public suspicion that might undermine all governmental authority. Nor was that foreboding confined to the Administration's allies. Journalists could sense among those Congressmen most determined to investigate the Iran-contra scandal an unspoken fear of where the investigations might lead, a kind of silent prayer that it would not once again be straight into...