Word: latching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Viviane’s despicability in these matters is somewhat forgivable; Frederic’s stupidity less so. At least the former is just exercising her incredible capacity for self-preservation—one that allows her to latch on to the closest plank on the country’s sinking ship, which just happens to be the over-greased, high-ranking Beaufort (Gerard Depardieu). He and Frederic are but two of the many people who have their eyes on the irresistible and infinitely manipulative actress...
...changing the Democratic Party [Dec. 22] comes down to this: Dean and Gore are angry and hate George W. Bush. Is that a winning [presidential] campaign strategy? Highly unlikely. Hoping that things go badly in the economy and in Iraq is not a philosophy the American people will latch on to. Dean is doomed by his own anger. Jim Slemaker Los Angeles...
...angry and hate George W. Bush. Personally. Is that a winning campaign strategy? Perhaps within the Democratic Party, but is it a strategy for winning the U.S. presidency? Highly unlikely. Hoping that things go badly in the economy and in Iraq is not a philosophy the American people will latch on to. JIM SLEMAKER Los Angeles...
...them testosterone alone, and you get a little increase in desire. Give them estrogen and testosterone together, and you get a whopping increase." Why? Some research suggests that testosterone's role in women is diversionary: it attaches to so-called steroid-binding globulins in the blood that would otherwise latch onto estrogen molecules and render them inert. The testosterone is taken away to the liver, while the estrogen is free to make a lust-inducing dash for the brain...
...Jean Renoir said every author writes the same story over and over. Woolrich surely did. He?d latch onto a plot, then refine it, try correcting its flaws, in a later novel. In ?Bride? he created a vengeance machine, a killer of all killers; in the 1948 ?Rendezvous in Black? his bitter protagonist decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without...