Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVERY THREE MONTHS, Rose Muchway, who is sixtysomething, and her husband Earl, seventysomething, travel more than 800 miles from their home north of Eureka, California, to Los Algodones, Mexico. They go not because they are particularly fond of the tiny border town (pop. 5,000), but because Rose suffers from asthma and is dependent on inhalers that cost $83.70 each at her local pharmacy. In Los Algodones she can pick them...
...clearly very fond of her characters. Phillips' love for Ruth and her dopey but sweet husband Henry comes through in the book, and gives the reader a special insight and affection for the characters. Phillips also points out that her fondness for her characters helped her return to and rework the manuscript in the years between its first draft and its publication. Even now, it is clear that Phillips takes an active interest in how people respond to her characters and interpret their actions...
...POLITICS IS LOCAL," THE LATE Speaker of the House Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill was fond of saying. As of this week, AllPolitics is more than that. In yet another indication of technology's growing influence on just about everything, it is now an address on the Internet's World Wide Web: http://AllPolitics.com...
...contribution was owed to his awareness of where health care was going and the adjustments that would have to be made," Pusey said in a statement. "I was personally very fond of him as a human being. He was a remarkable...
That's not Engel's fault. Old, stale, dead material is inherent to the play. Engel's solution effectively takes the edge off this problem. It makes the audience more receptive listeners--somewhat like Dante in Hell, bearing witness to final testimonials and recriminations. But unlike Dante, Masters was fond of his kin; no one is damned. The audience is asked not to judge folk for their failings but to pay attention to the actors' performances and deft versatility. Engel makes acting an integral factor in how memory is constructed...