Word: gratefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last January -- I went out on a cold, cold night with volunteers who take sandwiches and hot tea to the homeless. We found a lady who was eight months pregnant sleeping on the lawn of the Justice Department. And veterans of the Gulf War sleeping on a subway grate across from the National Archives. I talked to them, and I asked why they weren't in shelters, and they told me they were afraid. They talked of tuberculosis, of being robbed and beaten. People would say, "Man, I just need a job." But you could smell the alcohol on their...
...Enough is Enough: Weekly meditations for Living Dysfunctionally, Karen Finley turns pop psychology and accepted rules of etiquette on their heads in a cutesy way that begins to grate after about five pages...
...lyrics are neither cheerful nor profound--they're stupid. Their angstridden posturing will grate on your nerves. It's painful to listen to so many unsuccessful attempts at depth; here are some gems from the liner notes: "wish me passion I might feel,/wish me dead I'll be healed," "not knowing of love but feeling the same...
...shoe (a sort of dramatized pump) made for Marilyn Monroe in 1958 shoot back at a 45 degrees angle, resting on 5-in. stiletto heels. It was a pair of Ferragamo high heels that Monroe was wearing in The Seven Year Itch when the warm air from a subway grate famously raised her skirt. Ferragamo's shoes were sexy without being trampish. His come-get-me shoes were elegant, not overt, their allure coming from the fact that they simultaneously revealed and concealed, which is the secret of all eroticism in fashion...
...lyrics and vocals don't grate on yournerves, the music almost redeems most of thesongs. The resonating, melan-choly wooden flutesolo in "When Fortune Turns" is especiallyhunting...