Word: leeched
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...said as she retrieved a wine bottle for a table of girls in the corner of the restaurant. “I’ve met many wonderful professors and learned a ton, but I don’t expect much more. I don’t want to leech on the Harvard community. The kids at the college—they are paying for the connections, the perks, the activities. I pay $450 a class—I mean, what do I want...
...dream of mountains. Mountain air is like none other, dry and thin, it crackles with energy. Like pure water, this cool air is hypotonic. With each breath, impurities and particulates, the shellac of concerns and obligations, leech out of my lungs and are expelled into the cool wind. I dream of freedom...
...like Arkansas. And indeed, she seemed at home there, mastering the arcana of dairy-price supports and economic revitalization. While Lazio seemed reluctant to accept that good times had not suffused the state, Clinton was commiserating with those left behind by the current boom. She could still leech the life out of a large audience with her platitudinous speeches; but at diners, schools and community centers she was able to connect one on one. Among nurses, teachers and social workers, she was a goddess who understood what they were up against. Rather than faulting her for muffing health-care reform...
...declaring the two were soul mates. Maynard dropped out and moved in with Salinger, making herself throw up, as she puts it. This is interesting because so much of what Maynard does now seems to make other people throw up (New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called her a "leech" woman and the National Review referred to her as an "opportunistic onetime nymphet"), but such are the vengeful symmetries of pop destiny...
...question Maynard's motives in all this. I assume her thinking was: if making this relationship public can provide solace to just one other opportunistic nymphet leech who's had a traumatic affair with a pathologically phobic and exploitative author, then it will all have been worth...