Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they needed a whole new category of discipline. By Saturday afternoon, censure was out and "sanctions" were in, which would include financial reparations for misuse of government resources during the past eight months and a demand that Clinton settle all legal issues with independent counsel Ken Starr, with an eye toward some admission of wrongdoing. Among those at the table or on the phone were White House officials, former Clinton aides Lloyd Cutler and Leon Panetta, top Democrats in Congress and their lawyers, including longtime Democratic counselor Bob Bauer. White House officials carefully leaked that the President...
...every direction, nothing but tiny pieces of debris. The jet lay unrecognizable, "like a huge pane of shattered glass." And scattered among the shards were the people he had come for. He found an eye, a heart, a jawbone. Part of a hand embedded in an armrest. Poirier tries the word hellish to describe the scene, then takes it back...
...upper hand to--sadness or anger--and whether it's more manly to suffer in silence, drink in hand, or rage out loud, with his finger on a trigger. "This was the fatal habit of Polonius: to stand in the shadows, listening, peering at life with half an eye, letting others take the risk of living and despising them...
...inspired pairing: as composers, both men have a knack for knotty yet supple melodies, and Costello's bitter takes on romance are not far removed from the sometimes jaundiced eye of Bacharach's best partner, lyricist Hal David. Two years ago, Costello and Bacharach co-wrote the song God Give Me Strength, included here, for the film Grace of My Heart. If only the rest of this album were up to that stunningly well-crafted peak. Bacharach brings out a new directness in Costello's singing and verse, but the millstone is cloying production. These engagingly sinuous tunes deserve better...
...Friday, you just walked out of Ec Lecture, desperately trying to avoid the person you hooked up with last weekend. Do you make eye contact? Do you just smile and nod? And how did they get that duplex in Pfoho with such a high lottery number anyway...