Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, that is putting a high-minded gloss on the behavior, as if the auditorium of one's mind were always resounding to symposiums on Wittgenstein or on human rights in Myanmar. Caught me talking to myself? Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage! Thomas Jefferson dines alone! Shakespeare's soliloquies elevated talking to oneself to the highest art; on the other hand, Hamlet may not have been traveling with a full seabag either...
...Sovereignty Commission, a secretive organization that spied on civil rights activists, and prosecutors have been combing those records, in which Dahmer's name appears more than 80 times, for new leads. Last month a state court ordered the Mississippi archives to hand over a 200-page transcript of an oral history Bowers provided in the 1980s that could contain incriminating statements or leads...
...dismissal of the Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit [NATION, April 13], but the judge's decision has set back the women's movement 50 years. Now any boss can ask a woman to come into his office, close the door, unzip his pants and ask her to perform oral sex. Even if she refuses and leaves, she can no longer claim outrage in a court of law. Unless this ruling is reversed, women in the workplace had better not go into the boss's office without a witness. If Clinton can get away with it, any manager can. JOSEPH...
People who had quit start again and others,like Kassam, just bitterly lament, "I'm addicted!"as reason for continuing. One junior's explanationfor continuing his habit was little more secureabout myself. I think it has something to do witha manual-oral fixation and how I like my hands tostay busy. I can just be walking along, and whenI'm smoking, I sometimes feel I don't have a carein the world. I think 'It's just me and mycigarette and everything's okay.' Smoking makes meslow down and appreciate every walk more...
...student says, "I smokeCarltons because they're light, light as air." Hegoes on to argue that it is easier to quit fromlight cigarettes than Reds. Altshuler has apeculiar reason for enjoying his favorite brand,saying, "I smoke Parliaments because I like tostick my tongue in the recessed filter." Talkabout oral fixation! Other popular brands areCamels and Marlboros. One first-year woman says,"I smoked Winstons regularly, but then I saw an adfor Kamel Red lights, and I bought a pack becauseof the cool box. I liked it so much that I stuckit on my wall after the pack was empty...