Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraqi citizens accustomed to official admonitions about how the three-year battle with their hated neighbor Iran is likely to grind on indefinitely, the pronouncement must have been startling. Meeting with visitors at his palace in Baghdad last week, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bravely ventured a prediction. "Victory is at hand and not far away," he told his guests."With God's help, the final defeat of the enemy is in sight and within our reach. He is like a slaughtered bull in his death throes...
...take on his powers, to kill the deer to feel some deep, strange beauty in the deed, a fatal oneness. People fear some animals and devour others. Human teeth are not designed the way they are in order to eat tofu and alfalfa sprouts, but to tear and grind meat...
...song. Fierstein's book is sometimes forced; the campy scenes with the black maid/butler (William Thomas Jr.) quickly become tedious, for example Arthur Laurents' direction is occasionally jarringly awry, as when he has the mother of Jean-Michel's fiancee do a degrading bump-and-grind in her underwear...
...troubled community also seeks scapegoats, and the adoring crowds who initially put Zelig on a pedestal were just as quick to grind him into the earth. Though cured of his disease, many of the side effects lingered and came back to haunt him, including the countless women he married while pretending to be different men, the operations he performed while pretending to be a doctor, until finally he became the victim of a moral majority-type crusade...
...particular school of writers, have conceived of sex at Harvard not as an act of Just of procreation but as an intellectual experience. These novels take place at the nation's most distinguished center of scholarship after all; when their characters become physically intimate, why should they grunt and grind like students at some safety school? This is Harvard, and when a couple feels frisky, they run to the library, or study an ancient Indian religious text...