Word: fleetingness
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Aged feelings at 26 are rampant in tennis. At 32, Jimmy Connors, Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In...
On Empire Burlesque, Dylan is in fine dramatic form: wrenching on ballads like I'll Remember You, furious on Seeing the Real You at Last and spooky on When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky, one of those pacesetter Dylan songs in which romantic anguish kaleidoscopes into a sneak...
Just two months ago, Ronald Reagan won a major round in his tireless fight for the MX missile when he persuaded Congress to release $1.5 billion to step up production of the controversial weapon. But in the long-running MX battle, victory can be fleeting. Last week the Senate forced...
Far more interesting than the plot, however, is the background Eberstadt provides for each character, the fleeting situations, and the host of minor characters with their quick and pointed dialogue. She has a flair for constructing detailed, exotic scenarios which somehow manage to seem plausible without losing any of their...
Advanced students of the art of liar catching watch facial muscles closely because some muscle movements are almost impossible for most people to fake. For example, individuals who feel real grief will move the inner corners of their eyebrows upward. Only about 10% of the time, Ekman's experiments show...