Word: lucid
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...kind of started with Tylenol. I had never taken a pill, never gone to the doctor, but one winter when I was 32 years old, I came down with the flu. I was miserable, shaking, drifting in and out of consciousness. In a lucid moment, I remembered someone had left Tylenol in my medicine cabinet. I pulled the bottle out, took one, and crawled back into bed. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...only Italy's head of government, but the nation's autobiography. He combines generosity, inconsistency, acting talent, stamina, tactical lapses of memory and loyalty. He promises things he doesn't do, and does things he's never mentioned. His Italian opponents - even the best, the most honest and lucid - are right to worry. Not about Berlusconi himself. But about the Berlusconi inside them...
...result of his bleak youth in a Japanese prison camp, Ballard, who died on April 19 at 78, was convinced that 20th century life was a frail shell of pretense over strong, dark, violent impulses. His prose had a lucid, often clinical air, but his characters were weird iconic figures lost in their obsessions over sex, drugs, media, massive disasters, car crashes, dead pop stars, hydrogen bombs and fatal medical experiments...
...making getting a loan difficult; in black neighborhoods, predatory sellers jacked up prices and forced buyers to pay outrageous monthly fees or face eviction. The resulting financial strains only compounded black Chicagoans' housing problems and drove their neighborhoods into decline. Satter, a history professor at Rutgers University, illustrates her lucid analysis of race and class on Chicago's West Side with the experiences of her father, a white lawyer and landlord who crusaded against the city's discriminatory policies and fought those who exploited black homeowners. But the story doesn't end with his premature death...
...pulls up his pants. It would seem to the reader that Fuerst elucidates this point sufficiently without the need for Genie’s own exposition. Anyway, would 12-year-old Genie, shorts still around his ankles, realistically be able to snap back into a state of such lucid observance and proceed to comment objectively on his anger issues? In addition to its over-telling, the passage points to a sort of incestuous tension that is hardly subtle. “Those big-ass balls of yours!” Neecey says, examining her younger brother’s naked...