Word: lente
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What happened to the days when Lent meant giving up dessert for a month? We’ll tell you what happened: the new millenium. Now, we are bombarded with the necessity of Lent a la Josh Hartnett in “40 Days and 40 Nights.” (You know, the movie where Josh’s bros dubbed him a “player” and he gave up sex to prove them wrong?) Well, FM wouldn’t recommend abstinence to anyone at Harvard (let’s face it: that wouldn?...
...late June 2007, on the day Gordon Brown took over as Britain's Prime Minister, Northern Rock was enjoying the summer. In a good first half of the year, it had lent a lucrative fifth of the U.K.'s new mortgages. Its stock traded around a healthy $17 mark. That glorious summer is over now. The harsh winter has put a very different shine on things...
...degrees of the Cyclorama unoccupied by the set. Childlike flowers were juxtaposed unsettlingly with grotesque renderings of prisoners, and audience members wandered about in a stupor as they attempted to read the illegible scrawlings along the wall’s length.Every 10 minutes or so, a moment of humor lent “The Divine Reality Comedy” a flicker of fun. There was the burlesque ringmaster of Paradise, a nasty and ragged Santa Claus, and the 10-second appearance of Marx Brothers-esque “resurrection specialists.” But each highlight was quickly compromised...
...general longing of the audience-Clinton fund raiser Terry McAuliffe said on the morning of Super Tuesday that Obama has generated so much excitement, he would have to be considered for the party's vice-presidential nomination-the Obama people saw a trap. If Obama and his aides lent any credence now to the dangled notion of a partnership, they know that some of his voters might peel off, thinking a vote for Clinton was, in effect, a twofer. And that could drive down Obama's turnout. "We're not running for Vice President," said Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs...
...history - from the Cultural Revolution to the launch of China's economic transformation - and an encomium to his adopted home, Hong Kong. Sinclair and tales of drinking go together like Scotch and a beer chaser, and passages of Tell Me a Story also document his struggles with alcohol, which lent poetry to his reputation yet almost certainly contributed to the old lion's final vanquishment by cancer last month at the age of 64. Viewing him through posterity's filter, it is clear that he wasn't simply a local firebrand and celebrity. He was the last of a breed...