Word: oblivions
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...takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. Jeon's character goes through more mood swings than there are versions of Microsoft's operating system, and the hapless Gyun has to absorb them all. She drinks to oblivion, slaps him around, makes him exchange his sneakers for her high-heeled shoes as they walk through the park. It turns out she's still grieving over a previous relationship; Gyun guesses at what haunts her, but can't fully understand...
...Britney Spears and the rest of the teen pop movement, she and ’NSYNC continue to outlive the predictions. Why? Because as savvily packaged and heavily promoted as they may be, their songs remain danceable and fun. Jessica Simpson and the Backstreet Boys are drifting toward oblivion not because the concepts for their music videos are worse, but because their music...
...Arafat could die tomorrow. Or be forced to throw in the towel and head back to Tunisia and oblivion. And the basic terms for securing peace between Israel and the Palestinians would remain unchanged. If anything, there are sound reasons to be believe the resulting power struggle among rival Palestinian factions would, if anything, make achieving a peace agreement even more difficult...
...earlier stories Abe has a superhero alter-ego, Captain Oblivion, who foils evil plots like the distribution of "blinkers," a device that allows the wearer to "stick ruthlessly to one narrow path in life." But by midway through the book both Capt. "O" and the futuristic setting recede in favor of meditative free-association comix and thoughtful travelogues. One of the pleasures of reading the book is in watching how the artist evolves from creating whimsical spoofs with a touch of poetic consciousness to the exact inverse of that...
...Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. On the morning of Sept. 11, primary day in New York City, Rudy Giuliani was paddling along with all the other lame ducks into oblivion. The tower of strength had become an object of pity: the iron man's cancer made him vulnerable, the righteous man's adultery made him hypocritical, the loyal man's passions?for his city and its cops and its streets and its ballplayers?divided the city even as he improved it. After abandoning Gracie Mansion, his marriage in flames...