Word: fulness
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...more than a dozen complex, contradictory characters through their speech rhythms, the way they walk and sit and prepare food, and the diminishing space between the heads of two people trying to decide whether to spend the night with each other. The characters are like the film: funny, rue ful, modest, utterly engaging - alive...
...Paratrooper hits the ground and rolls into a proper landing fall. It is a good jump, a good landing. He looks up at the dense cloud of green parachutes, and he explodes with joy. "You are bea-u-ti-ful!" he screams. "Bea-u-ti-ful...
...today's anti-Americanism is founded on a misperception. The U.S. is not so weak as many in the world - or in America - take it to be. The nation remains militarily, economically and morally powerful - in the aggregate, far more power ful than Russia. The problem is not lack of strength but a bewilderment of will. The U.S. must decide how its strength should be applied, and if it is willing to pay the inevitably high price for applying strength. French Author Louise Weiss believes that the present American predicament began in "a search for a false popularity...
...Birkin observes, when Barrie died in 1937 he was revered and renowned as a novelist and playwright. Yet it is doubt ful that he felt himself anything but a failure, still longing for that country of lost content, a landscape that existed only in his mother's mind when she dreamed of her dead David. What Barrie discovered in his single masterpiece is that almost everyone secretly yearns for vanished innocence. Most people put the search aside to answer the demands of here and now. Barrie's tragedy was that he was condemned to look for it every...
Everyone should be as un-copable as Erma Bombeck, the frumpy suburban housewife who masquerades as a success ful syndicated columnist and morning-show television commentator about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around...