Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Auchincloss wrote about social decay, about the gradual bleeding of moral force and money from the old Protestant families of Manhattan. His Collected Stories (Houghton Mifflin; 465 pages; $24.95) were written from 1949 to the . present, and their themes are remarkably consistent. Again and again, Auchincloss describes pale people who turn their faces, shuddering, from the modern world. His male protagonists are weak and bloodless, his women lumpy and conflicted. As a class, they have even lost their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret...
...past foreign forays. The Liberal Democratic Party leader who has gadded about with ex-Nazi storm troopers and nubile nightclub strippers was the soul of propriety. As he stood waiting to disembark, surrounded by the latest members of his ever-shifting constellation of advisers, bodyguards and hangers-on, his pale blue eyes betrayed the hollow disorientation of an actor between scripts who suddenly finds himself at a loss for words...
...Pale Horses scored the upset...
...this muscle flexing. He thinks it's counterproductive and it just gets the back up of the international community." A U.N. official standing near both Aziz and Hamdoon when the news of troop movements came says, "They had a look of shock on their faces. Hamdoon actually seemed to pale...
Shortly after we walked into the Career Forum at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, a short man in a grubby raincoat approached us. "Looking for a career?" he whispered, opening up his cost to display dozens of embossed business cards clipped to the frayed lining. A pale finger beckoned us to follow...