Word: inner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Impoverished as it is Riddley's language can still generate unexpected riches. People in trouble are "living on burrow time." Two of the sciences that the nuclear "barms" wiped out are "chemistery and fizzics." When a person is trying to think amid too much noise he complains of "inner fearents." Riddley sometimes rises to alliterative poetry. He describes the rain "spattering on crumbelt conkreat and bustit birk and durdling in the puddls gurgling down the runnels of the dead town...
...personal problems, though, that leave men most at sea. At one meeting, a father of twelve-year-old twin daughters wanted to know what to tell them about premenstrual cramps. Most of the men know more about the inner workings of the space shuttle than about the women who used to share their bed and board. Someone suggested, seriously, that since there were training bras, perhaps the drugstore carried a "starter kit" for the menstrual cycle. (Single dads tend to have unusually intimate conversations with their women friends.) The group finally threw itself on the mercy of a college girl...
Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, 58, erstwhile Scovill Inc. executive and sometime rodeo steer roper, has given the nation a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Reagan Cabinet. The Secretary's insights came in a stand-up monologue, "On the psychology of that jelly bean jar on the Cabinet table, " delivered at the National Press Club. Excerpts from Baldrige 's report...
Photographer Edward Weston claimed that great portraits reveal "the very bones of life." He did not include, of course, workaday, signed publicity shots of notables (or hopefuls), the glossy eight-by-tens that decorate restaurants, offices and waiting rooms with ballpoint sincerity. Those bones are less signs of inner life than mementos of the cult of personality. What may be the country's first formal display of autographed pictures of famous folks is now on view at the venerable Boston Athenaeum in an exhibition titled "This Is My Favorite Photograph of Myself." The surprising result: a vibrant, affectionate show...
...skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer rip-off and a blight on our students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil-teacher ratio...