Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of decodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all the exams insist at the top, "Illustrate, "Be specific;' etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If we Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered...
...bigger dining-room table." It was an understandable plea from the mistress of Hickory Hill, the Robert Kennedy family's child-beswarmed antebellum homestead in McLean, Va. After Bobby's death, Ethel was left to raise a brood of 11. Today the nine surviving R.F.K. offspring form the largest single clan among the Kennedy third generation...
Aristotle gave us the true definition of tyranny: the absolute rule of one person, without law, for his or her private good. It complicates matters if we insert "public" for "private." In theory, the lawless rule of one person could be the best form of government, if that person loves justice and the public good...
Jack Nicholson, back in leading-man form, plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall. The movie's first scene shows Melvin shoving an adorable little dog down a garbage chute, and he doesn't get much more polite than that, dispensing sharp-tongued and occasionally appalling wise-cracks throughout...
...before, only a select few would be able to watch the lascivious feats of Pamela and Tommy, while now many millions of people can join the ranks of voyeurs. It is a difference of kind: communication on the 'Net is neither private nor public. Internet communication is a new form deserving of a system of governance created especially for it. At least Tommy and Pamela could have had a moderately more private sex life...