Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alas, she loved notoriety even more than it loved her. The huffy reception being given Vamps & Tramps (Vintage; 532 pages; $15), her paperback volume of new and recent essays, journalism, TV interviews and effluvia, suggests that Paglia is in her 16th minute of fame -- like Madonna at her current ebb with an exasperated public. This is a shame, since it discounts Paglia's rangy, roguish intelligence and genius for mischiefmaking...
Like many people there, Hill and his friend, Mike T. Marcucci '98, were keeping a running tally of the ebb and flow of Senate seats...
Which is perhaps why the administration, while rigorously condemning undergraduate drug abuse, turns a blind eye to the steaming vats of coffee that appear in dining halls every morning to tempt students whose powers of resistance are at their lowest ebb...
...groups are getting along better and better because--with University expansion into the city locked on ebb--they have fewer and fewer opportunities to fight...
...congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they do not support the comparisons to late Monet, Renoir, Bonnard "and, of course, Titian" that David Sylvester makes in his catalog essay, certainly confirm that the movement of De Kooning's talent was not on-off, but ebb and flow...