Word: luring
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Such sensations were Heaney's birthright. The oldest of nine children, he was raised on Mossbawn, the family farm some 30 miles northwest of Belfast. A Protestant estate adjoined the Catholic Heaneys' land. "I was symbolically placed," he said later, "between the marks of English influence and the lure of the native experience, between 'the demesne' and 'the bog.' The demesne was walled, wooded, beyond our ken; the bog was rushy and treacherous, no place for children...
...addition, Berry said Sunday brunch will have more selection and Friday dinner will have more finger foods in an effort to lure students who eat out on the weekends back into the dining halls
...Republican moves like those that Democrats see their chance to lure the middle class back to their side. But for Clinton it's still one thing to zing the other party, another to mount the barricades. On his road show last week, whenever he mentioned that the Republican tax cut would go disproportionately to rich people, he added that "to be fair, some of [them] haven't asked for it.'' (A prudent qualification, given that each night he was raising millions of dollars at party fund raisers from well-off contributors.) The line that came to him most naturally...
...love visiting Miami because you meet an interesting collection of gay men from all over the world," says a 32-year-old college professor from Chicago who makes the trip twice a year. But not everyone is as thrilled with the lure of Miami Beach as a same-sex social cornucopia. Locals have complained about noise and lewd behavior outside some nightclubs. "That's not the kind of society we want to see," says Phineas Weberman, a local Orthodox rabbi who claims that many tradition-minded families are abandoning the heavily Jewish area because of their new neighbors. Critics...
...viewers to make bar bets on the status of young womanhood. The pageant is good for drama and giggles on a Saturday night. Nestled on the September schedule amid the Jerry Lewis Telethon and Monday Night Football, the Miss America show shares with those made-for-TV spectacles the lure of unpredictable thrills and gaffes, adventure and ennui. It's gaudy, it's fake, it's real, it's live! We hate it. We love...