Word: kind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...partly through her real suffering at the hands of a rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked the public worship of her. And finally she became the ultimate victim of her own fame: pursued by paparazzi, she became a twisted and battered...
Show biz keeps a hold on us with its near monopoly of beauty, spellbinding us with the power of pulchritude. Here are the faces and figures that have launched millions of fantasies: monuments of loveliness, the fleshy, sleek, skin-deep kind. We know they reflect only our desire, but we still dream they connect with our souls as well...
After Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet, thousands of astounded people wrote to him. "I thank God," wrote a 68-year-old lesbian, "I have lived long enough to see my kind emerge from the shadows and join the human race." Sputtered another writer: "Maybe, just maybe, some of the more hostile in the district may take some potshots at you--we hope...
...what a strange kind of love it was. His letters to her reveal a Peter Pan with urgent needs for a dynamic, motherly woman. He pleaded for her love like an infant; she lectured back on behavior and "being your best." Theirs was a mother-son relationship, "psychical rather than sexual," wrote Winston Churchill. But to the Prince, the financially beset social climber was "the perfect woman." And David, as Wallis always called the man who would not be King, insisted to the end that they had never been lovers before they married...
...always the center of attraction. At that time, my family had just fled Austria and moved to Amsterdam, and I spoke very bad Dutch. But she'd say, "Come and meet my father because he'll speak German with you." Which I did. And Otto Frank was extremely kind. He and his family had fled Frankfurt in 1933. They used to have a bank there but lost it after the Depression. And then the Nazis came to power, and the world changed even more...