Word: nearer
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Funny? Maybe. But not unexpected. By now, even I understand the role of guanxi in China. I only wonder how the whole system works nearer the throne...
Fundamentalist opinion to the contrary, Lewis was not Satan's satrap. Anxious middle-class parents, who saw him as an emissary from a netherworld that was nearer at hand -- trailer-park America -- were possibly a little closer to the truth. Like Presley, Dean and Brando, he was a figure partially shaped by a popular culture that in the '50s was learning to cater almost exclusively to kids and their need for rebel figures. But there was also an element of discomfiting truth in the message he sent. The thing about the young Jerry Lee was that he was all fecklessness...
...peace movement in America today as the "majority in the periphery." Our voices used to be relegated to the remote periphery of the political discourse. Now I think they are being heard at the center. And I think those farthest from the seats of power tend to be nearer to the heart of things. It was true in the civil rights movement and in the antiwar movement. Now the same thing is true of arms control...
Vogueing pranced a step or two nearer the mainstream last week. The houses of Extravaganza and Magnifique, among others, strutted their stuff at the venerable Roseland Ballroom for a show sponsored by the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS. Among the crowd present: the Talking Heads' David Byrne, actress Gwen Verdon and real fashion model Iman. Said the evening's master of ceremonies, David Ian Extravaganza: "I never thought I'd see the day when we'd be doing this downtown." Well, no; but, then again, don't dance off to California either, David. Vogueing has not yet arrived...
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