Word: lifelong
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...girl I knew in high school has memorized all of Janet Jackson's dance routines. A college acquaintance is afraid of train whistles. Five separate people harbor lifelong desires to visit New Zealand. How do I know these things? Because they won't stop writing about them on Facebook...
...sweet-souled 18-year-old, aces questions about Indian history because he's lived through it--just barely. He's grown up in obscene and criminal poverty with his tougher brother Salim (Madhur Mittal). Jamal wants to stay on the show long enough to attract the notice of his lifelong love, Latika (Freida Pinto), whom he's lost in the billion-strong crowd but who must be out there somewhere. Can't a slum boy hope for a miracle...
...suggest that Obama has not had the experience of "humiliation and racism" is presumptuous and insulting. Andrew Young has obviously not read Obama's memoir, Dreams from My Father, which details Obama's lifelong struggle with identity, race and racism. It is true that Obama defies easy labeling, but to say he bears no scars is myopic. Obama overcame his adversity to rise above it and bring our nation with him. God bless him and his family. Nancy Green, FAWN GROVE...
...novelist at heart, and it was with the novel, along with the short story, that he would have his lasting, lifelong romance. This appears to have dawned on Updike slowly, but it was abundantly clear by the publication of his second novel, Rabbit, Run, the first volume of five that chronicled the life of Rabbit Angstrom, Updike's great hero. Rather than a fictional alter ego, Angstrom was a vulgarian, a crass, lusty, middle-class salesman, through whom Updike anatomized and dramatized the great American spiritual and cultural crises of his generation. (See the top 10 John Updike Books...
...decades, the primary approach to rehabilitation in the U.S. has been 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Twelve-step doctrine defines addiction in a contradictory way: as a medical problem, like a lifelong illness, with a spiritual solution (surrendering to a higher power). The model has become so culturally hegemonic that it's hard for many to imagine any other way to stop getting drunk or doing drugs - or gambling, overeating or watching porn, for that matter. When we see Anne Hathaway's character in the film Rachel Getting Married at a 12-step meeting or when we watch...