Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crime to me, dark social history, ebb andflow of dark events, the near psychopathic,semi-psychopathic, the leg-breakers of history area voice for me to express my moral concernsbecause these are men who paid morally for theirdark deeds. I am first and last and always amoralist. They are the means for me to recreatehistory to my own specifications, but I am notthem.There is a definite distinction betweenmost writers and their work. Because the work is,in the end, as it is in my case, a work ofimagination, with the exception of thenon-fiction...
...According to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox, Jr. '59, Faculty engagement on these bodies is cyclical, alternating between times of genuine passion--such as during the Vietnam War--and calmer days. Fox calls recent years an "ebb" in terms of Faculty involvement...
What makes the novel riveting is its almost anthropological description of the ebb and flow of power and status in official Washington, where the ultimate currency is access to the President, or "face time." In his descriptions of aides scrambling up the West Wing ladder during the day and angling for an A-list invitation at night, Tarloff provides the context that's missing in disclosures by Starr, Larry Flynt and the tabloids. They tell us everything we always wanted to know about sex in high places, but nothing about life there...
...other Radcliffe officials insist the departures are unconnected, an example instead of the natural ebb and flow of staff hirings at academic institutions...
...CABARET Remember when Joel Grey was considered seedy? Alan Cumming gave Grey's Wilkommen a sinister new twist as the androgynous emcee; Natasha Richardson embodied a defiantly deglamorized Sally Bowles; and British director Sam Mendes made the terrific Kander and Ebb musical even more terrific...