Word: keen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence," offered the Ohio Republican. "I think that we're making some real progress." Although the direction of that progress was unclear, committee chair Henry Hyde renewed his vow to have the whole inquiry wrapped up by the New Year. Democrats, of course, are equally keen to get it over with -? which is why they raised no objection to Lindsey's appearance and agreed to waive that contentious attorney-client privilege (much to Bill Clinton's chagrin; the President complained that calling a plaintiff's private lawyer was "without precedent"). And for those of us who've seen too much...
...learning to live with real human emotions are what turn the denizens of Pleasantville into genuine human beings. It's not such an easy moral, though: the introduction of freedom in Pleasantville leads to assorted unpleasantries like book burning and bans against the "colored" people, and seemingly peachy-keen marriages are disrupted. On the flip side, the two teens are also made better by their experience in unreality, impressed by the purity and poignancy of the fictional world they've disturbed...
...sense of family honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool, and Stuart out of some sense ofrestitution, a keen sense of the absurd and justflat out love of a story, is alright with this andin fact with all that goes on in the novel...
...would the White House be so keen, why would they be in such a rush that 13 days later [after the embassy bombings] they had to drop the bombs?" asked Hersh. "I think the only answer is that it's political...
...when her mother died and, as she tells TIME in an exclusive U.S. interview, retains only fragmented, "private" memories of their life together. She adds that her father--and this may surprise all the Hughes haters among the Plath defenders--raised her and her younger brother Nicholas with a keen sense of their mother's continuing presence in their young lives. "I grew up thinking of her very much as an angel. Not even so much in death, but also in life. And of course, as I grew older, it began to dawn on me that that was impossible, because...