Word: hug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a person like that. Every day for years he always came home drunk, making me hate him. I know he'll soon die and that makes me cry. He gives up on life, he doesn't look for solutions. I remember when I was small he used to hug me. Things are getting worse. I got to get ready before he dies...
...lady's son. I mean, I don't really know him, but I saw him last week after some Puerto Rican kids stole his jacket. It was a new leather jacket. They held a gun to his head. I saw him in the subway, and I gave him a hug. I didn't like him or anything. I just wanted to show him that not all Puerto Ricans were like that...
...When do you plan to hug her again...
Miyake's face creases into the sort of smile that should come in a gift box. "Great!" he says, grabbing his companion in a tight hug, as if some souvenir sphinx had suddenly surrendered a secret. To all the patrons in the hotel lobby, it looks as if old friends were reuniting at the end of a long trip; in fact, any voyage with Issey Miyake is ongoing. "Next time I make like that, and you do something different again," he laughs. "Always fresh, always different, always challenge. That way is best, I think. Want...
...songs about mamma, lost loves and the perils of strong drink. The crowd continued to swell. Every few minutes a car filled with a family would come coughing down the dirt road to the cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop-time fashion one associates with grandmothers' kitchens--and conversations...