Word: heavenward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Open, his refusal to answer was as full of protective affection as of cuteness and tact. (He said, "A Williams.") Earlier in the week, when informed of Outrageous Statement No. 10,000 that her dad had made, Serena, who won the whole shebang, rolled her eyes slightly heavenward, the way that only a normally dad-mortified daughter would...
...formula of mixing high culture and low comes into view like a pop in the nose. It's a haute-fashion shoot at a real Las Vegas boxing match, with a model, dressed by Helmut Lang, cavorting with Tony Curtis and George Foreman. On the cover, Hillary Clinton looks heavenward as if invoking divine guidance for her husband's "sin of weakness," Gwyneth Paltrow crawls on a leopard-print rug, and George W. Bush looks as if he's about to cut loose with some earthy language (as he does inside). The juice is in the juxtaposition, says Brown...
...unknown God's love for humankind; and, finally, the suffering Jesus, whose Crucifixion symbolized not redemption but, rather, the suffering of light trapped in the material world. Jesus the Splendor lived on the moon, which waxed full each month as light was redeemed from the world and sent heavenward...
...went public and hand to hand. Dole tried to parry the many punches with counterpunches and humor, or sometimes by ignoring them. He lost himself in numbers and bills and vetoes and at times was almost incomprehensible. He talked in the third-person absurd, and Buchanan was caught looking heavenward and rolling his eyes as Dole, head tilted to one side, a little ill at ease, struggled to get through his list...
...recorded all Elvis' early sides for his seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired his high school sweetheart, Dixie Locke, who was on a family vacation in Florida. my record is doing great. Two years later Variety declared Presley a millionaire...