Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Floerchinger at the helm and the loss of only one player due to graduation--senior Becky Gaines--the team is likely looking forward to another successful season...
Still, there are signs of progress even here. Felicity's virginity loss last season, though tinged with guilt, was refreshingly free of melodrama. And TV's embrace of bad sex is, at best, a stab at honesty, which isn't always pretty. Carrie wonders, "Have we put such a premium on being open and honest with one another that we've misplaced the boundaries of propriety?" Perhaps, but they often came with fictions and stereotypes. For City's cool superwomen, a little cynicism can be empowering, as on an episode about an acquaintance's whirlwind wedding. A lesser sitcom would...
...have no statistics on this, but conversations with friends and dozens of person-on-the-street interviews I saw and heard last week convince me that a lot of Americans felt a sense of personal loss at the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. Their grief was palpable and clearly genuine. Yet I couldn't help wondering how many would have reacted this way to the death of a relative. A mother or father, sure. But what about Uncle John, who lives across town; or Cousin Tara, who moved to another state; or even Grandma, whom we see once...
...that every community on the river had lost touch with it and with the notion that the river was their home. The greatest single tragedy on the Hudson is that hundreds of years of history are disappearing. It's like burning down a museum or trashing a library. The loss is devastating and profound...
...decided to run for a congressional seat. The district was strongly Republican and the Democrats were in disarray, but Kathleen told her husband, "Someone has to run, and this is where my kids are going to grow up." She ran as a Townsend and lost. "That loss was good for her," says former U.S. Senator Joe Tydings, who has been close to the family for decades. "Kathleen is just like her father. She is a learner. She had a lot to learn...