Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas Eve, Washington answered the call. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman increased federal purchases of pork for humanitarian aid, established a moratorium on direct loans for new production plants and urged supermarkets to start passing on savings to consumers and meat packers to buy at voluntary minimum prices (two in the Midwest have already started doing...
Find a buddy who shares your goals. You can encourage each other during the tough times and tackle new adventures together. My jogging partner signed us up for a 5-km run at midnight, God help us, in Central Park on New Year's Eve. The mere thought of it kept me pounding the pavement these past few weeks...
...subject matter that these artists selected: there seems to be an overriding emphasis on the biblical and the classical. Brutus's wife, Portia, is here, swallowing her coals. Charming nymphs and satyrs, Psyche and Cupid, and Juno and Bacchus are portrayed next to angels, the Virgin, and Adam and Eve. But there are also some peasants, shepherds, portraits of anonymous females and beautiful studies of hands and nudes. With a little chalk and ink, the artists examined everything from the silly to the sacred...
Nonetheless my favorite character by far is Daisy. Karin Alexander '02 gives a moving rendition of Daisy's love affair with Berenger in which she, as the reluctant Eve, is wooed away from her unstable Adam by the call of the rhinoceroses. She manages, as Berenger remarks at one point, "in a few minutes to live 25 years of marriage." In the cramped apartment, as the last human woman, she is assaulted by Berenger's insistence that they resist and save the world by regenerating the human race just as she is assaulted by the roaring and stamping...
...then read a statement: "It has suddenly come to my attention that there are individuals working together with the media, who are investigating my personal background in an effort to find indiscretions which may be exploitable against me and my party on the eve of the upcoming historic vote on impeachment." The room went silent. Members looked around at one another, their eyes wide. "When I did an early interview with the media after announcing my candidacy for Speaker, I told a reporter that I was running for Speaker, not sainthood. There was a reason for those words." More stunned...