Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just became a hunger strike...
...proved he was a good listener as the impotent confessor in sex, lies, and videotape. And what young fellow wouldn't care to wake up on a couch with Susan Sarandon's head in his lap? From The Rocky Horror Picture Show through Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, The Hunger and Bull Durham, she has been the American cinema's beacon of seductive intelligence: our own Statue of Libertine...
Perhaps by starting a new paper--one that is both witty and respectful--Pritchett can save conservatism at Dartmouth from the extremists and pranksters who have given it a bad name. No more free champagne-and-lobster brunches during campus-wide hunger protests. No more racist articles written in "Black English...
...talent for intimidation and exploitation. As her husband stood by ineffectually, she forced Richard and Stanley to do the heavy housework, forage for walnuts and , sell them door to door. Not allowed to use the toilet during the night, Richard surreptitiously relieved himself in jars. Beatings were common, and hunger constant. While Aunt Anne and her husband ate steak, the boys were fed rotting hard-boiled eggs...
Burrough is the biggest beneficiary yet of readers' hunger for tales about the pratfalls of the corporate elite. For many other top financial journalists, six-figure book advances have become the rule. Publishers pay handsomely for such potential blockbusters as author Ken Auletta's probe of the television industry, which brought him at least $500,000 and is due on shelves next summer. Connie Bruck, a New Yorker writer, reportedly signed a $400,000 contract for a profile of Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. Other high-priced works in progress include Wall Street exposes by Anthony Bianco of Business Week...