Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whim, the trio goes to the sea. They rent a house by the beach and spend the summer there. They have a glorious time of it, with a few minor incidents. Catherine is extremely jealous when Jules and Jim don't pay any attention to her because they are so engaged in a game of dominoes. Jim is attracted to Catherine, but he respects Jules so much that he does not take advantage of the fact that Catherine is also attracted to him. As the summer ends, Jules proposes to Catherine, and she accepts...
...kids to "shut up and celebrate Christmas" while contorting her face into strange fried-egg expressions. A funny mix of maternal and monstrous, Connie is able to balance delicately the separate but equal horrors that consume her life. Her character accurately reveals the modern female condition in all its glorious yet irritated state...
...68th birthday, he almost certainly didn't expect to attend opening night of a revival nearly 39 years later. He surely didn't expect to be 106 and actively supervising revisions to his libretto about a middle-aged man who sells his soul to the devil for one glorious season as a long-ball hitter. But Abbott was more than a ceremonial presence at last week's gala. He was in the audience for previews night after night -- taking notes. Since well before the revival began tryouts in San Diego last autumn, Abbott has debated jokes and period references, wrestled...
...deliberated taking the Ambassadorship to the Vatican, which, after a mawkishly tearful "I-am-the-son-of-an-Immigrant-and-look-at-me-now" acceptance speech on the steps of his church, he suggested might not actually be good enough for him; the honor, evidently, wasn't so glorious once Flynn realized that the post is the grandaddy of all diplomatic sinecures...
...militants were shadowing Jackson, that he had received death threats and that his family had been harassed -- facts confirmed by the FBI. Until then, Farrakhan's speeches had reviled white people, not only over slavery but also over what he sees as a vast white conspiracy to conceal the glorious past of blacks as the original human race and the founders of most branches of civilization and scholarship. But he had not singled out Jews for special vilification until his Savior's Day speech that year, when he tried to intimidate Jackson's harassers: "If you harm this brother...