Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Germaine Greer is in love. Or in lust. Or just plain involved. She's being coy about the details, but she is behaving amazingly girlishly. She goes a bit gooey when she talks about the nameless "him" for whom, she confesses, she is making a compilation tape so he can think of her while she is away in America. And like regular women everywhere--women who aren't, say, feminist icons who have written life-changing books like The Female Eunuch--she confesses, "I'm waiting for the phone to ring." It's not that Greer advocates such behavior...
With thoughts of a jobless, impoverished, post-graduation future bearing down, one senior girl (who wishes to remain nameless) decided to test how far the Harvard name could take her. Last month, she put her used underwear up for sale on Ebay.com, a virtual auction Web site. Knowing that Ebay sales require creative marketing ploys, she coaxed potential buyers with "sexy, red-head, Harvard coed's panties being sold to the highest bidder." Offers came in from across the country. Although the senior earned $7 from the sale, she now believes--given the response she received--that she may have...
...group to support group, seeking human connection. He ultimately finds it when he and his friend, Tyler Durden (Pitt), create a new club where rich, bored young men fight each other till one surrenders or dies. The trend soon spreads in to cult-like, society-warping proportions. Also, the nameless narrator [Norton] becomes involved in a love triangle with Tyler and a girl named Marla [Carter...
Kennedy, who is chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeepers, a conservation organization, said that his nearly two decades in environmental law have convinced him that ordinary Americans have the power to defeat "nameless corporate enteritis" in ecological litigation...
...declared the affidavit of an Ohio friend. For years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according to notes from a nameless bureaucrat, because he was blind and totally helpless. "I didn't know that," says Konecny, shaking her head sadly. Turning over the last papers, she sees in the place marked for her great-great-grandfather's signature a large X made in black ink by a trembling hand...