Word: ets
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Well-known cases of celebrity stalking and worse--e.g., Lee Harvey Oswald, et al.--are included, but Gabler has also recorded, for instance, the story of Robert O'Donnell, the fireman/paramedic who rescued little Jessica McClure from a well in 1987 and achieved instant celebrity. This public hero became angry when his fame quickly faded, and he subsequently became a victim of migraine headaches and a painkiller addict, lost his job, was sued for divorce and committed suicide. O'Donnell, as Gabler puts it, "had been addicted to fame, and the true cause of his death was his withdrawal from...
...believe, in fact, that most women would prefer a man to be glumly uncommunicative than to spill his guts at the drop of a hat. That (one recalls with a shudder) was the goal of the so-called men's movement of Robert Bly et al. in the 1980s and early '90s, which exhorted men to express their feelings. If anyone doubts the perils of men expressing feelings, he should watch The McLaughlin Group or Cable Monica...
...fair to Boies et al, the DOJ still has plenty of juicy material to feed on. Its latest witness, economist Frederick Warren-Boulton, brought out one tasty tidbit Tuesday: Microsoft, he said, had an "astonishing" 38.5 percent profit margin -- more than any other high-tech firm in the Fortune 500. How, then, can this company claim that it doesn't derive benefits from its monopoly position? After all, there's one thing the AOL deal hasn't changed: 89 percent of those Netscape browsers are going to be viewed on a Microsoft-operated machine. Windows, too, is a beast that...
...descendit," (he descended) in a motif that alternated between the orchestra and chorus. The forceful repetitions ended with a descending solo clarinet figure. This line, which was unfortunately marred by a bad note, fell, as if from the heavens, to the pure tones of the unaccompanied quartet intoning the "Et incarnatus..." The Credo ended on a lighter note with a playful fugue on the text of "Et vitam venturi saeculi," (and the life of the world to come.), inspired by Bach's similar usage in his Mass in b minor. Brewer and Clemont's capricious interplay, along with the matching...
...things I foundparticularly funny about Et Tu, Babe[Leyner's second book], was that it was about awriter who attracts the same kind of celebrity asan actor or rock star...