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...Children of Men portrays a world in which all the men have become infertile. Without the prospect of posterity, the human race collapses into a ruthless, apathetic society, craving only comfort and security. Deranged would-be mothers pamper kittens in prams, Christianity has generated into a backward folk, religion of animal sacrifices, and bloodthirsty Omegas, members of the last generation born on earth, terrorize the countryside, slaughtering innocent passers-by in orgiastic rituals...
...clerk since 1985. "Does Trump think people in Atlantic City are going to be just like lemmings and go to the sea and drown?" asks Fitzgerald. "This is an industry that spends over $70 million a year in complimentary food, liquor, rooms, limousines and helicopters. Why can't they pamper the residents...
...China, during the Ch'ing dynasty, the Emperors' Pekingese were suckled by wet nurses, raised by eunuchs and given royal rank. Tsunayoshi, the "Dog Shogun" of 17th century Japan, distorted his nation's economy to pamper his 100,000 canines. Ovid and Catullus wrote poems to commemorate the deaths of their mistresses' birds, and trendy Romans kept pet turbot. Today a dog's vita can be just as dolce. Three years ago, Lady Beaverbrook booked all the seats in the business section of a jumbo jet so that she and her pooch could travel in solitary comfort...
Irregular weather had brought us together in the spirit of carefree abandonment, but dazzling, snow-filled skies would inevitably clear for the usual Cambridge chill. Camp Harvard is only in session when Mother Nature has the time to be an indulgent proctor and pamper her charges with a climatic study break...
...traditions. And so, like any father, Monsieur can play favorites with his children, finding small pleasure in the weekly visits of his dutiful son, gasping for the breath of fresh life the mercurial Irène brings with her in her in frequent appearances. Like any grandparent, he can pamper or scold the little ones. Like any widower, he can surge into reveries of his dead wife, see her sitting in that chair, her chair...