Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that very few people sincerely, with an outspoken voice, value their four years here with heartfelt appreciation. There should be a golden regard for the priceless opportunities and impassioned people we meet on this campus...
...identified with Morticia as a child. "She was such a graceful, sick, twisted and sexy mother." Of course, Morticia never lived in a tepee--which is where Hannah, who spells it tipi, spends a lot of time between movies. Those of you who bemoan the loss of Hannah's golden tresses can take comfort in the thought that at least she didn't take the part of Uncle Fester...
...without "a nanosecond of contrition," at least in public, for their former spin on Clinton's behalf. But then consistency is a hobgoblin of the pre-spin mentality. Although the truth about Monica, or something close to it, was forced out of President Clinton, we are still in the golden age of spin. Spin as a metaphor derived from "putting a spin on the ball," and meant putting your own twist on the truth. But a better image today is the spinning wheel, thence the expression "spinning a tale." Truth is incidental...
...there's something about Russia. It gives grandeur to tragedy and rivets eyes that would otherwise wander. Maybe it's the Russian soul, that famously long-suffering bit of global ether that gave Dostoevsky and Tolstoy their golden touches. Maybe it's the sweeping snowscapes, or the songs, and that there's just no throng like a Russian throng, fur hats and all. Or maybe it's all those nukes. Whatever it is, it pulls Reds back from the brink and into the pantheon of really long, turgid movies worth watching...
SILENCE ISN'T ALWAYS GOLDEN...