Word: elliott
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seek even more power than it wielded before, by passing hundreds or thousands of narrow, specific prescriptions on presidential prerogatives. "The court's decision," said G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, "has catapulted Congress into years of complex, cumbersome legislative activity to repossess our original powers." Georgia Democrat Elliott Levitas, who for years has been the House's leading proponent of the legislative veto, was more vivid. "We've got a real governmental train wreck on our hands," he said, "and we've got to get it back on track...
...shade past the ingénue stage, but not quite right yet for classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of good judgment, the producers changed the film's title from My Darling Shiksa.) If her screen work seems a little pale, the Hemingway magic returns the moment she lapses into her first vocation as model. Even when she dons men's clothes in Paris for a fashion spread, Margaux...
...Sadly, Elliott points out, any account of his Harvard career must include his battle over the last two years with an illness that caused severe headaches, and later, depression. A series of doctors have failed to identify the ailment, but they eventually traced it to chemical fumes he was exposed to during a summer factory job he held after sophomore year. The chronic pain never subsided until this spring, despite various treatments, and pushed Elliott into a state of clinical depression. "The pain was bad," he recalls without visible emotion, "but your mental state gets so dark that everything that...
Only when Elliott himself suggested the combination of chemical and psychological reactions this year was progress made toward relieving his condition. "I read just about every book on pain and psychology and medicine I could get my hands on...until in this one I found that answer, what the [author] called 'biopsychogenic pain.' I diagnosed myself, and I think correctly...
...possible to fit back into Bremen life as a Harvard Man? Only to an extent, says Elliott. "It's very easy to go back and be the same old person. The challenges that have made me different don't exist out there....But they'll all see those changes eventually, and they won't be alarmed...