Word: genuflecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, women come to Axum to speak directly to Mary. They dance to beg for help. They approach the gateway to the inner shrine to genuflect and kiss its stones. They stand in lines along the outer walls offering silent prayers. "If we have a problem--lack of rain, poor harvests, infertility, illness--we need to go to her and she will listen," says a young supplicant, "more than Jesus or God. If we are here, by our presence, she knows it even though we can't be in the church...
...that keeps customers in the theater even after they've been sexually satisfied. His lover and star, Amber Waves (a nicely wasted Julianne Moore), is almost as devoted to the son she never sees as she is to her cocaine stash. Rollergirl (Heather Graham, before whose beauty all gentlemen genuflect) performs sex on skates. And Eddie (Mark Wahlberg, a nice surprise) is just a dim, polite kid, not strong enough for the burden of stardom...
...Many of them were once among his strongest backers, but the disastrous war in Chechnya, the general poverty of the officer corps, the delays in salary payments and an overall sense that Russia has been humbled have created powerful anti-Yeltsin sentiments. "Six years ago, I was ready to genuflect before Yeltsin," said the colonel. "Now I would just love to lock him in handcuffs and drag him off to Lefortovo prison. If I could...
...elicits responses from even the most taciturn Quadlings. Some walk through the shuttle's middle set of doors and emit a sly smile at the novelty. Some grab the metal poles lining the seats and swing around like circus performers. And some simply genuflect at any sighting...
...vain for radical campaign-finance reform that would have banned pac money and out-of-state contributions. As she said, "You can't perform surgery in a dirty operating room and with a team that hasn't scrubbed." LOW POINTS THE SUCKER AWARD: Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to genuflect at the Dallas conclave summoned by Ross Perot. Six weeks later, Perot announced the formation of an independent party...