Word: eveing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spliced Genesis, where Cain and Abel are closer than brothers. "You remind me of him," Salter says to the good Bernard, who replies, "I remind me of him. We both hate you." And where Adam, or God, is the villain, for siring an Abel whose goodness tortures Cain. (Perhaps Eve was cloned in the Garden of Eden; otherwise, where did Cain and Abel find their wives?) Salter, I guess, is Adam, and Abraham too, betrayed by the gods to whom he handed over his child - not to be killed but to be traded in for a better model...
...financial world excites Rose more than anything else, and when he leaves Cambridge for good on Christmas Eve (lucky exam scheduling on his part), football will be far from his mind. And even though his favorite receiver, Morris, will head for the NFL, the guy who threw him all those balls has no dreams of following...
...Republican takeover of the Senate was close to two years in the making, the strategy hammered out by Rove and various high-ranking G.O.P. activists in secret meetings held everywhere from Capitol Hill brasseries to West Virginia golf courses. By the eve of the election, G.O.P. polls projected a big turnout by Republican voters energized by Bush's full-court press: he visited 15 states in the past five days. Democratic strategists, meanwhile, underestimated his pull. "Bush's coattails were far more effective than anybody on our side thought," says a top Democratic operative. "We thought his popularity numbers were...
...takes place, is also wild, raw and at times downright raunchy. It’s a place where women proposition men, and boys do too, where life tastes delicious and where wives and worries are left at home. Outside, however, Germany sits partially trembling and partially blind on the eve of Nazism. Ultimately, the political situation renders the inside less lascivious and more escapist; the Kit Kat Klub transforms into a retreat from Hitler’s Third Reich...
...idea that the choice between war and peace is in his hands, preferring to see himself simply as a polite but firm detective out to do nothing more (or less) than establish the facts. TIME caught up with him in his modest UN office in New York on the eve of his departure...