Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...libel have to see it, if only to know the enemy up close. Maybe Hitchcock was right when, to smooth the feathers of one of his stars, he cooed, "It's only a movie, Ingrid." Maybe Fatal Attraction is just a nine-weeks wonder. More likely, though, it will linger in the American central nervous system. A single woman may have to go to the personals column for her next beau. A married man may sit on his lust the next time an attractive woman says, "Hi." And next time he and his wife go out on the town...
Those disquieting questions linger after the 1987 synod, which was summoned to discuss the role of the laity. The month-long conference of 232 bishops from 92 countries, joined by 51 official lay observers, produced no significant accomplishments and few concrete recommendations. The emptiness was apparent both in the synod's platitudinous message to the church at large, and in the secret "propositions" sent to the Pope, the Latin text of which was obtained by news organizations...
Feelings of suspicion and cynicism linger long after the many statistics are forgotten. Ironically, the editors seem to lament the lack of meaningful political debate in America, yet rely on mere numbers to make their points. Stalin once bragged that "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." What does that make the 1159 statistics in the Harper's Index? The stuff of fun conversation, maybe, but also cause for alarm...
...grief and drunkenness, "This has made me -- you know -- not as whatever as I usually am." In truth, he is much more whatever than ever. But Burn This prospers more from his talents than it suffers from his excesses, and a surprising number of its seemingly throwaway moments linger and ripen in memory...
...linger long past the hour we had set aside for our coffee break. It is late now, and Pamplona is slowly emptying. First the couples leave, then the students. The European types remain. It seems as though they are always there...