Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arnault isn't the type to dwell on such incomplete victories. There are other names on his shopping list, including the Paris jeweler Mauboussin, and perhaps Barneys, the bankrupt New York City retailer. The Barneys situation is particularly nasty, with lawsuits flying and all manner of unpleasantries exchanged among Barneys' owners, their landlord and assorted creditors. Yet Barneys remains the most excessively hip retailer in the country. It would seem like a deal tailor-made for the talents of Bernard Arnault...
...Amitabha Buddha, Sukhavati, according to the ancient texts, had no ghosts, no beasts, no sickness--and no women. Yet those who reach the Pure Land, as East Asian Buddhists call it, know the journey of their souls is not over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven jeweled palaces, and have fine objects, smells, tastes and sensations, yet they do not regard this as pleasure...[and] seek only to leave that place." Nirvana, the ultimately selfless Buddhist goal of nonbeing, is beyond paradise. Annemarie Schimmel, the great Western scholar of Islam, would agree. She wrote, "Once...
Columbia is a favorite Ivy League. cellar dweller, and they take that aspiration to the limits, forcing even their band to dwell in mediocrity, nay abomination. To the uninitiated, the Lions' band looks to be a fraternity prank. In actuality, it is Columbia trying their hardest...
That day, however, is still a distant sci-fi dream--or nightmare, if one cares to dwell on the social and economic impact of such a development. In the meantime, little can be done for those who refuse to do for themselves. Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, chief of geriatrics at Boston's Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, pointedly warns, "Geriatric medicine starts in the 40s." And the NIA's Sprott cautions that "the difference comes in life-style changes, not in the pills you take." Health and biomedical researchers all agree that for now, the best offense against the ravages...
...with her. "She knew how to cut and run," says the narrator, who had met Elena in Los Angeles; both were regular invitees to Oscar-night parties that strongly resemble, as described here, the legendary ones thrown by the late agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar. Didion's narrator does not dwell on this detail, but it is dropped nonetheless, as if to show that her heroine has renounced a very glitzy circle of friends...