Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cream sundae to the zapping of bugs on a porch, as they might be in Humbert's fevered mind. Other times, the camera slows down Lolita's actions in running up the stairs, or playing tennis, in the same way that Nabokov's narrative draws out these occurrences in feverish detail through words...
...about 5% a year. Unemployment stands at 4.5%, nearly a 28-year low, and only 1.8% for those with college degrees. Thanks to rising productivity, real wages have been rising for the first time in nearly three decades without spurring inflation. The U.S. growth rate, while down from its feverish 5.5% in the first quarter, is still expected to register 2%-plus for the rest of the year. The only skunk at this picnic is the Asian, Russian and Latin financial crisis, estimated to have knocked about 2.5 percentage points off second-quarter growth...
...forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with his first-draft images. As he revises and colors them in, he achieves a union with Nuala that, against all odds, isn't totally one-sided. The result is a reading experience as fresh and basic as lying down feverish on cool, clean linens with loving hands to tuck...
...when the tale spins from the story of the scientist to that of the assistant director and his cast A febrile reiteration of the word "soul mate" in myriad forms ("sole mate") reminds us of the pitch of Byers' anecdotes and how seriously he takes himself. An intriguing and feverish last passage asks agitatedly, "Where is your soul? Is it here?" as if prodding a criminal into revealing his hidey-hole. It's almost as if the author were ascertaining the location of the soul in order to negotiate with it a treaty of interpersonal alliance--the frantic...
...film of Battlefield Earth, the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Travolta is a strong adherent of the controversial "belief system." His friends and relatives say it empowers him with almost fearless self-confidence. He believes it does even more. "I once got so feverish we had to stop production on Grease," remembers director Randal Kleiser. "John decided to cure me using Scientology, and put his finger over my body for an hour. The next day I made a full recovery. Of course, it could have also been that flu shot from the medic...