Word: inhabited
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They present the familiar ironies of being caught between two worlds, unwitting Proserpinas who, having eaten of the pomegranate are unable to inhabit either world fully...
WITH THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, DOUBLE AGENTS seem more likely to inhabit novels than real life these days. But Cuban exile Francisco Avila Azcuy claims he was just that -- a double agent spying on exile commandos in Miami for Fidel Castro while helping the FBI unravel Cuba's espionage network in the U.S. Not uncoincidentally, a Cuban diplomat at the U.N. was expelled after the Spanish- language Miami TV station WSCV secretly videotaped the official discussing a prospective exile raid on Cuba with Avila...
Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...
...easy to see why. His humor is torture, and his style is as fussy and clumsy as an awkward hostess. But beneath the musty packaging is a moral universe we still inhabit. Though the Mohicans have vanished with the first- growth forests, Cooper's coordinates are still familiar...
...business of corporate law--its transactional, almost sterile nature--does not lend itself to glamorization. The 30 percent of lawyers who practice public interest law (government and not-for profit work) are often more visible. Issues which inhabit the moral high ground, such as the preservation of constitutional liberties, are often more immediate and personally relevant to the public...