Word: gazer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this book goes, the investment pays off. Carr's voice is persuasive; he not only anticipates every potential critique of his project but also hurls each one fiercely at himself. Don't bother telling him that he's a presumptuous navel gazer for pursuing this story; he knows it. When he visits his ex-wife Kim, on whom he recklessly cheated, she refuses to talk with him about the past. It's a satisfying encounter, as we witness the head-on collision of Carr the intrepid reporter-author and Carr the self-critical and ambivalent subject. Kim's silence...
...individual nations, we may argue over the garden fence, but when a neighbor's house goes up in flames, we pull together and put out the fire. History suggests it sometimes takes an emergency for us to draw closer. Looking inward won't cut it. As a professional navel gazer, I recommend against that form of therapy for anything other than songwriting. We discover who we are in service to one another, not the self...
...Your faithful crystal-ball gazer was even more myopic. I ran a humiliating three for 11 in major categories as I picked them on the day of the nominations - no, please don't look. I even lost an impromptu bet, as the evening began, on how long Martin would wait on this pained occasion before cracking a joke. Correct answer: about 15 seconds. "I am really glad they cut back on the glitz," the he said, glancing back at the lavish stage set. "That'll send 'em a message...
...stick with me while I take a chart gazer's look at the Dow. It's in a classic "pennant" formation that in the end tells us nothing about whether the market is going up or down but leaves us with one valuable tidbit: we're due for a breakout--soon. And when it comes, up or down, the market should continue in that direction for a while...