Word: element
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the death of a lovely if maddening princess, out it has all poured. Something, as the old song said, had to give, and perhaps this fantastic display of public grief, so vulgar in many ways, so unconvincing in others, has to it some spiritual element after all. Perhaps in their hearts--or so I hope--the British people see Diana as a fellow victim of degraded times, and have instinctively seized upon her death as the moment for a fresh start...
...cloak-and-dagger element always plays well on talk radio...
...with his children was damaged, calling it "the biggest regret of my life." He became reclusive, living out of a small, sparsely furnished apartment in Manhattan. One year he lost money. He said later, "I underwent a serious change in my personality during that period. There was a large element of guilt and shame in my emotional makeup." Therapy helped, but philanthropy was the cure...
...answer is that the nature of police misconduct, if not the volume, has changed. In the past, brutality frequently took the form of a cop retaliating against someone trying to harm him. Often it went unnoted. Today there is frequently an element of police gangsterism. Small groups of police officers share a fermenting contempt for the people they encounter. Rogue cops band together and cover one another's crimes. When all this unravels in public, it seems as if entire cadres are corrupt...
...surprise and fear--the image of those teeth is still very clear in my mind--I have been elected. I slip over the side. Meyer unbinds the captive, and the huge fish and I are floating free in the crystalline blue water. This is the shark's element. What happens next is entirely...