Word: grates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush could be hampered by his Establishment background (old money, Andover, Yale) and his brittle mien. His somewhat shrill voice, unmodulated even after professional coaching, could grate next to Ferraro's homey lilt. "He sounds a little too hyper, a little too screechy," the ex-aide concedes...
...have the ability to move into governmental and political relations they have the ability to move into alumni affect. They have their own networks and they will bring more people into the University. But we've got to move to a critical mass on this University, and not into grate units, one person at a time...
Wanda (Caroline Isenberg) remembers exactly what she was doing when Kennedy was shot. It is a moment frozen in time, a point from which her life's trajectory begins. Isenberg has a whiny, mournful voice, which tends to grate and becomes monotonous, but the tone does add to her air of wistful reminiscence. She believes in the story as in a myth, sees Kennedy as a Christ figure and a Camelot legend...
...What she did to my young brother was worse. When he was two years old, she tried to hang him from the shower curtain and drown him in the toilet. He still has tic-tac-toe marks across his chest from being held down across a red-hot heating grate. From the time he was born, my. mother groomed my brother to kill my father. When Daddy came home, she made us tell him how much we hated him. I went to bed and prayed he didn't believe me. It was after I'd been married...
...wanted these drawings to be taken as finished works of art, but the fact that he did not discard them even when they had been developed into paintings suggests that he placed more than instrumental value on them. But whatever the cause of their preservation, one can only be grate ful for it. No other group of Renaissance drawings offers so vivid a picture of a class. They are documents as fraught with human interest as any court memoir by Hervey or Saint-Simon. In celebrating Holbein's eye with such curatorial precision, the Morgan Library...