Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough self-improvement rhetoric to fuel a Weight Watchers convention, and you have a "Book Event," a postmodern creation that has feelings but no thoughts. While examining her every emotion, Monica reports nothing about the White House other than the President's private study and bathroom. For all we know, she could have passed Tony Blair on her way out of the Oval Office but not told us because what she remembers is the awful blister she got from her high-heel sandals on the way home...
...what was once a promising personal alliance between Kabila and Museveni, men who seemed to embody a new kind of progressive African leadership. "Museveni is a nigger like Mobutu," Kabila says of his onetime ally. "He's an exploiter." Says Museveni: "Kabila was always weak, but I didn't know he would also be so treacherous...
...hard to understand why this works. Why would anyone pay for a book or a magazine just for scoops you already know about from the publicity? But people do. Partly they've been suckered by the sideshow barker's trick of implying that there's more inside when there ain't. But partly there is pleasure in holding and owning something that's making news, even if it's news you already know. And journalists love producing scoops for something like the same reason. There's a thrill in being the first to report something, even if it's basically...
...many problems, the Galleria had no high-end anchor store, like Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus; its two largest tenants, Robinsons and May department stores, merged and got into a messy legal dispute with the mall. Then there was the mall's odd design, which made it difficult to even know how to get into the place. Maybe most important, there were three better malls within 10 miles...
...Shall We Live?" about the bankruptcy of religious belief. From writing political plays that verge on the lecture, that is, Hare has decided simply to lecture in an actorly manner. "I find the strategies of fiction more and more tiresome," he explains. "I cannot watch Hollywood films, which I know have been written to a three-act structure that's been taught in class at UCLA." Though he has made forays into Hollywood in the past--including the film version of his play Plenty (which is being revived next month in London starring Cate Blanchett)--he is now resolved...