Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escorts was understanding their purpose at all. When she asked why she needed to have two escorts, the anonymous sophomore received "the most inane answer I've ever heard in my life. This lady said you needed to have a man on either side of you in case you faint." Mystified, FM wondered if this was a precaution in case a deb's dress was too tight. "No, it's in case you're too nervous," FM learned...
...Apple's stock soared, once-faint key-clicks crescendoed into a deafening tumult in libraries into a deafening tumult in libraries and classes. And the odd set of typed notes mushroomed to 900 megabytes of European Intellectual History transcriptions collected by eager Donald Fleming disciples...
Feldman's masterpieces are not for the faint of heart...
...smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants. But nights are still dark and silent; only the light from the tourist hotels casts a faint glow over the ocean-front Malecon. Havana is a ghost of itself, its once vibrant life leached out by hard times...
This is not a play for the misty-eyed or faint of heart, but it is truly not nihilistic. What's magnetic about George and Martha is the double-edge nature of their emotions, and the fact that ultimately, they are not even sure they know themselves the way they know each other. Albee once said of the conclusion of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, "we must try to claw our way into compassion." The play begins and ends in darkness, and after the brutal glare of judgment intervening, it's an act of mercy to gesture towards...