Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...romanced by gorgeous James Spader? His face is a bouquet of sensitive sensuality; he proved he was a good listener as the impotent confessor in sex, lies, and videotape. And what young fellow wouldn't care to wake up on a couch with Susan Sarandon's head in his lap? From The Rocky Horror Picture Show through Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, The Hunger and Bull Durham, she has been the American cinema's beacon of seductive intelligence: our own Statue of Libertine...
...once went to South America and took a drug there called ayahuasco. I was actually there with my ex-husband. He had laid down his head on my lap, and I put my hand on his forehead and it felt like it was pulsing and growing and WARRRrrhh. Every once in a while they would shine a flashlight. Every time they did, bugs would scurry on the walls. And that was no hallucination. They brought this woman in who had to be carried in. And the shaman sang over her. La-la-la-la-la-la-la. Jamorino...
Even New Yorkers, inured to their city's escalating violence, were shocked: four children dead just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Veronica Corales, 9, was asleep in her parents' car. Yaritima Fruto, 1, was sitting in her mother's lap in an auto stopped in traffic. Ben Williams, 3, was asleep in his family's apartment. Rayvon Jamison, 9 months, was playing in a walker in his grandmother's kitchen. In a span of nine days, all were struck by random shots fired from 9-mm semiautomatic pistols, which have become...
...chin is cupped in one hand, a ball-point pen in the other, and opened on his lap is a large notebook with lined pages. Occasionally he stirs, his eyes focus, and in tidy, cramped handwriting he adds a sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...
...this is the last lap of the 20th century. Old values are exhausted, and new styles are hitting their stride. This is true even in Primrose Hill, where Harry, an old-fashioned ladies' man and pub potato, is drawn into the messy lives of friends and family. Brother Freddie, "a poet of the '50s in the sense that his career was almost totally confined to the years 1958-59," has been sexually recharged by modern medicine. Son Piers is a wastrel and dodgy lodger at his father's house. Ex-stepdaughter Bunty is a lesbian, and niece ) Fiona an alcoholic...