Word: felted
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Bork's supporters generally felt that he helped his case by coming across as open to change. Contended Bruce Fein, a legal scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Open-minded people frequently change their minds. Constitutional jurisprudence is not first-grade arithmetic...
Robertson rapidly moved toward the mystical, perceiving frequent and direct instructions from heaven. Dede, a Roman Catholic, was concerned that her husband was displaying "schizoid tendencies." Their firstborn Timothy was a toddler, and she was pregnant with the second of their four children, when Robertson felt called to a religious retreat in Canada. She begged him by letter to return: "I need you desperately." Robertson was troubled. "Was this God telling me to go home," he recalls wondering, "or was it Satan?" After prayer, he wrote to his wife, "I can't leave. God will take care of you." Tension...
Unlike Fatherhood, which felt obliged to interrupt the jokes for a few passages of banal "advice" to parents, Time Flies makes no claim to great significance. That job, as in the earlier book, is left to a plodding introduction by Alvin Poussaint, a Harvard psychiatry professor who is a consultant on Cosby's TV show. And if the kvetching starts to grow wearisome, Cosby manages to end on a note of uplift: " 'Dee-fense!' I am crying to joints that need 3-in-One Oil, to intestines that are begging for custard, and to eyes that are proud of their...
...ever met." Cosby does not dispute the characterization. "You have to remember the times. It wasn't so much because of any racism directed against me. It was because of the March on Washington and how the press tried to ignore it, and the Red-baiting going on. I felt that my country had betrayed its black citizens." He got the role nonetheless -- the first black actor to co-star in a network dramatic series. The event was a Jackie Robinson-like breakthrough. "I remember being totally overjoyed about it," recalls Actor Robert Guillaume. "When Cosby hit, it was like...
...Pope has lost little of his personal impact. "People seem touched, enriched in some intangible way by the Pope's presence," observed Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio. One of the AIDS patients in the San Francisco congregation, Earl McLeod, thought that the gay demonstrators outside would have felt differently had they seen John Paul close up. "If they had heard what I heard," he said, "they would not be protesting...