Word: man
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work with other men, mostly because construction is hard and screaming "Nice ass" never seems to work. No, we're not men like our fathers: confident, stern and single-handedly supporting a family. But we're happier and more pleasant in our permanent adolescence reading Maxim and watching The Man Show. It definitely beats going...
...best hope for that is Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette), daughter of a heart-attack victim Frank has brought into the hospital, where the man lingers between life and death and where Mary hangs out, awaiting his fate. In her repressed way, she's as strung out as the medic, and perhaps not good news for him. But she's the only hopeful news in sight, and their tentative flirtation keeps getting interrupted--by cardiac arrests in nightclubs, by the allegedly virgin birth of twins, by the running violence of an often half-naked street person (well played by the singer...
Which leaves Gore supporters wondering if their man can build on his week. Those who doubt his fortitude should hear Seattle mountaineer Jim Frush tell how Gore and his son Albert III, 16. climbed Mount Rainier last August. With ice picks and crampons, ropes and harnesses, they began the final grueling ascent at 2 a.m., in white-out conditions, hail and high winds. They summited six hours later. Gore, who hasn't told that story publicly, has been closing his speeches with a generic bit about standing on the summit--"You can see a long...
...attained a fine finish. Over the next 50 minutes, Mendelson, a gangly man with a Dead Poets passion, alights on the distinctions between the Puritan, Enlightenment and Romantic mind-sets; Pascal's wager over the existence of God; his (Mendelson's) sister; the unreliable narrator; and, of course, Muhammad...
...have friends and does have them, but it's something that causes him to worry." Now his friends worry his parents. He seldom introduces them to his friends, many of whom are white and come from affluent families. "He thinks we're country bumpkins," says Bobby Sr. "This young man lives in a fantasy world. He wants to be rich...