Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after first reading the Morrison novel, here she is as the producer of what she told screenwriter Richard LaGravenese would be "my Schindler's List": a pristine, potent distillation of Beloved, which opens Oct. 16. And there she is onscreen as Sethe. Or rather--and here's a sweet jolt--there is Sethe onscreen, with Oprah living, hiding inside...
...financial aid revolution began with a jolt at Princeton last January, as officials announced a $4 to 6 million aid increase aimed at attracting students from middle-class families. Now, the number of students on aid is back up, and officials last week declared their policy change a success...
Most folks are a bit cranky on the first day of the workweek, but their Monday blues are nothing compared with those of the stock market. Last week's 512-point plunge in the Dow was just the latest jolt to Wall Street (and international markets) after the weekend--from Oct. 28, 1929, to Black Monday in 1987, to the 554-point dive last Oct. 27. Indeed, half of the 10 biggest drops in the Dow's history, both in percentage and point terms, came on Monday, which has been the worst day of the week for stocks over...
...England, "empty as the moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...
...came as a jolt to members of the Manhattan publishing community--chief among them Whitney--when the revered editor was ousted a week ago and replaced by her rival, Cosmo editor Bonnie Fuller, 41, who took over Hearst's sex-and-the-single-girl book from Helen Gurley Brown just 18 months ago. Fuller's successor at Cosmo will be Redbook editor Kate White...