Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of ritual offering to the gods--the gods, that is, of prosperity and business success. Cups of rice and wine, bowls of fruit, sweet incense are all left in the newly occupied office building to please the gods who dwell there; if they are pleased, the business in their office will prosper. Michael Yang, American-educated in journalism and in sales, waves incense and prays to the gods of money. He burns ritual money on the floor of the new office; the false gold bills fill the room with smoke until the fire is doused with wine...
Pinter has chosen characters who dwell comfortably in the intellectual world: editors of literary magazines at Oxford and Cambridge, publishers of books, people who include Yeats in their suitcases when packing for vacation. Such characters allow him to demonstrate larger truths about the place of the intellect in friendship and love, particularly when it rationalizes away responsibility. Jerry has no guilt over his affair with Emma until it is long-finished, when Emma tells him over a drink that Robert knows. "But he is my best friend," Jerry whines, as if confronting the fact for the first time. By moving...
...Waits doesn't dwell on the lofty mega-platinum pinnacle of success enjoyed by groups like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, or by solo artists like Jackson Browne, but his albums and his frequent tours (on last year's, each performance was opened by a Waits-auditioned local stripper) have sold consistently well. His songs have been covered by several million-selling artists (including the Eagles), which means that Waits has been on the receiving end of a few fat royalty checks. A self-described follower of "life on a beer budget," one can't help but wonder what Waits...
Typical of the suddenly idle worker of 1980 is Wilson Painter Jr., 31, a Pennsylvania apprentice machinist who was let go by U.S. Steel in May. A big-boned man with the look of a football guard, Painter tries not to dwell on the future. Instead, he spends his empty hours playing with his two children, helping his wife Kathy around the house, or ritualistically unpacking and cleaning the precision calipers, gauges and scales that lie neatly slotted in his tool chest. Painter was halfway through a program to become a journeyman machinist when he was laid off. Those tools...
...million homes now wired for cable, while the three major networks can reach almost all of the 76 million U.S. homes with TV sets. But Turner is convinced that there is a greater appetite for news than the networks can satisfy. "Because of ratings pressure, they tend to dwell on catastrophe-dictators assassinated, seagulls covered with oil, volcanoes erupting, charred bodies," he says. ''The only time they tell you what's going on in Washington is when some Senator has gotten caught with his hand in the till...