Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast sum of money," Nelson calculates. "My wife's insurance would take care of that if she died." He says this to Carl Van Ness, a stranger he has just rescued from a drowning-suicide attempt in a pond near his wife's house. Here, Nelson believes, is an answered prayer. Since Van Ness seems intent on killing himself--because he believes himself, for reasons unclear, already dead--why would he mind taking out Winona before completing the job on himself...
While this family has never been one to deny that "such things happen to them," they are unable to accept that anyone would ever find out. "We squelch [the world], blind ourselves to it with propriety and high-minded-ness and good cheer; act as though there's a few bad eggs out there, but the rest of us are just fine. But there's another world--a counterworld, you could say--where life is complicated and mistakes get made and women get pregnant when they're not supposed to and people do stupid things and betray each other...
Politics is full of our innermost fears, joys and passions not because the personal is political, but because the personal does not exist. Laws are directly tied to loves. Loves and love, because one-ness reduces us to an empty conception of "self" that has no meaning out of context, forcing us into a model of relating to others which ignores the multiplicity of our inherent possibilities...
...sides emphasized their willing- ness to work together so that the Advocate can remain in its two-story home on South Street...
...tall storm trooper ("made of pristine fiber glass" and available for only $4,995). As Star Wars Insider, an official fan-club publication, puts it: "There is more nifty stuff to buy [than ever before] if that's how you choose to express Star Wars-ness." Throw in a $2 billion marketing agreement with PepsiCo, and Star Wars-ness is arguably more potent a force than ever before...