Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Morales, a truant officer for Billings School District 2 and a recovering addict, deals with the meth problem too often in the form of 10- and 11-year-olds either on the drug or suffering abuse at the hands of spun-out relatives. "I call them the ghost children," he says. "I see them all the time...
...idea of bringing on board someone who had been an independent counsel. Just before noon on Tuesday, she signed off on Stein and Cacheris. Borrowing a line from the movie Bulworth, Ginsburg insists that he's not out of the game altogether. "I will be a spirit, not a ghost, in these matters," he says. "I intend to speak out. Bill Ginsburg still represents fairness, justice, freedom and democracy." But from now on, he doesn't represent Monica Lewinsky. A whole new game is about to begin. --Reported by Viveca Novak, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
Spielberg heroes don't often find themselves in complex emotional entanglements (Celie in The Color Purple is an exception). One of his rare failures was Always, with its story of a ghost watching his girl fall in love with another man. The typical Spielberg hero is drawn to discovery, and the key shot in many of his films is the revelation of the wonder he has discovered. Remember the spellbinding first glimpse of the living dinosaurs in Jurassic Park...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...
...heroine, whom she likens to Ally McBeal, is Veronica ("Call Me Nikki") Chase, a flirtatious economics professor who knows how to make Adam Smith go down easy. Chase ghost-writes articles for the Times, crunches numbers for a prestigious campus committee and still finds time to swoon over her dishy ex, Dante. But she wields her entitlement with refreshing honesty, describing herself as a light-skinned "bourgeoisie" black who "had grown up and gone to white schools and didn't believe in unduly upsetting white people...