Word: faintness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well on my way. My appearance was shocking. I was about 20 lbs. underweight and malnourished, the result of giving up almost all forms of food except coffee, sugar and, of course, alcohol. I was in the early stages of delirium tremens, the DTs. I sometimes heard faint ringing noises in my ears and suffered unexpected waves of vertigo. I felt near constant pressure in my lower back and sides from the punishment my liver and kidneys were taking. My personality was also seriously diseased. I was nervous, reclusive, by turns extravagantly arrogant and cringingly apologetic. I tried to cover...
...made of sterner, that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that if you lean in close to some people, you will hear the faint, possibly edifying beat of a different drummer...
Slowly, like a photograph developing in a darkroom, the faint outlines of how a Central American peace might look are beginning to emerge. The boldest step toward that goal was taken last week in El Salvador, where the National Assembly approved a broad amnesty law that applies to both leftist guerrillas and members of right-wing death squads. The bill was passed to comply with the Guatemala accord, which calls for the freeing of political prisoners but does not specify who fits that definition. Among those expected to benefit from the amnesty are the right-wing national guardsmen who killed...
Expository writing does not inspire such necessary confidence. I walked in there an innocent with faint dreams of being a writer and I slid out a quivering lump that grew queasy at the sight of a pencil. I wasn't alone in my shame--others in my section and in other sections found their illusions of talent dissolved into thin...
...search for a standard-bearer has lately produced a new faint rumbling on the right: Viva Kirkpatrick! In Managua last week, that cry greeted the only American to have a contra brigade named after her. When Jeane Kirkpatrick arrived to address a reception on the grounds of the U.S. embassy, she was met by a wildly enthusiastic crowd of more than 1,000, many waving small U.S. flags. "It was almost as if she were running for office," said one who attended. "Like the presidency of Nicaragua...