Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astonishing clutter of pins, screws, nails, spikes, plates and wires, as though the right side of my body were a reject costume design for RoboCop. My muscles had wasted away from inaction, and I could scarcely move without severe pain. I stank of sweat and urine. And I felt almost crazily happy--partly because of the outpouring of support and affection from friends and family, and partly because I knew I had been to the limit and made it back. Though diminished, I was alive. I had always taken that condition for granted before. I never will again. Blind luck...
...Calif., had her face fully resurfaced by a laser two years ago, just before turning 50, to eliminate smile lines, wrinkles on her forehead, frown lines between the brows and crow's-feet around her eyes. Before the procedures, she says, "I looked mean, and I felt older." She also felt vulnerable at the office. "People want to work with people who appear youthful, vital and exuberant. I wanted to look outside how I felt inside. Does that sound shallow...
...leather-faced old man intently folded his pink ballot and slotted it into the box, I felt a slight lump in my throat. I'm a sucker for the rituals and realities of democracy, and here we were in the remote Chinese village of Liujiachang watching a thousand citizens in a schoolyard listen to campaign speeches and then vote for mayor. The incumbent, a slick young man elected three years ago, promised to lower taxes and improve irrigation. The challenger, older and more earthy, promised to open the village books for inspection and eloquently described how his own success...
...black orphanage, the distinction of becoming his errand boys. For Essrog the decision was a no-brainer. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles) and taught him the new vocabulary of belonging. Essrog and his buddies became Minna Men--detectives who knew how to follow Minna's orders blindly...
During most of the meeting RUS grappled with the host of questions it faces in the wake of the merger. Some women said they still felt left in the dark about the status of women's programs at Harvard...