Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAVE fond memories of snow. In second grade, I used to wake up several hours before the rest of the house to listen to Jim Scott's school closings on WKRC. During my first year, the first snowfall was greeted by a huge party in the Yard...
...bombardment of fact than in its eloquence. Was it the gravity of the event that inspired politicians, generals and common citizens alike to such memorable words? "It is well that war is so terrible," said Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Fredericksburg. "We should grow too fond of it." Abraham Lincoln was inspiring even in his black moods ("If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it," he said at one low point) and his caustic ones. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," he complained of his dithering military chief, "I would...
...surprisingly, the senior military brass is not fond of Shchit. Most of the movement's leaders, including Urazhtsev, have been taken off active duty and expelled from the party. Now many officers keep their allegiance to the new organization secret. Says Nikolai Moskovchenko, 35, a major removed from active duty earlier this year for supporting the reformers: "The majority of soldiers and officers are with...
...public outcry when a TV personality is pushed toward unwilling retirement typically resembles a Roman candle on the Fourth of July: the blaze is bright but brief, the heat evanesces, and all that lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show...
...Reindeer (Morgan Shepherd). It's about obsessive imagery and compulsive behavior: half the people walk on crutches, and just about everybody chain-smokes, sometimes two cigarettes at a time. And, aptly for a film shown in the living movie museum of Cannes, Wild at Heart is Lynch's fond homage to The Wizard of Oz. Lula clicks her red slippers to get out of a jam. Her mom (played with lubricious abandon by Dern's mother Diane Ladd) is the Wicked Witch, all long nails, daft cackles and unquenchable vengeance...