Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break up in private on the other person's turf. Don't act like the guy in The Unmarried Woman, who tells his wife he's leaving while he's walking down Fifth Avenue. Don't say goodbye while on vacation. The other person needs to be near friends and family to lean...
...generously given foreign authors an English-speaking readership, translating works by, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Luis Borges, Andrei Voznesensky and Joseph Brodsky. His words have been sung on Broadway, set to Leonard Bernstein's score in the musical Candide (1956). And last fall Wilbur became the second person, after Robert Penn Warren, to assume the title, established by an act of Congress in 1985, of poet laureate...
...night Frog was teaching the tricks of his trade to a couple of eager apprentices, ages 10 and 11. Just as he was selling a $20 packet of crack to a customer, a squad car pulled up. With 15 rocks on his person, Frog was promptly busted. He was also thrilled. "The cop made me put my hands behind my head," he boasts, "and pulled me by my thumbs...
...citizens, understands the challenges posed by future technologies and has consistently supported Israel. "The truth is, Al Gore is a complex individual with a wide range of interests and a record of activity in each one of those areas," says an aide. "While that might be attractive in a person, it can be a disadvantage in a presidential candidate." But having failed to define himself, Gore was helpless as others did it for him, often in inaccurate terms -- Southerner, conservative, panderer, racist...
Claudia's great intellectual preoccupation -- as well as the thesis of her historical volumes -- is the random nature of history. Woe to the person who sees any order in the past; kaleidoscope is Claudia's favorite word. Effective enough at first, this aspect of Moon Tiger is overdrawn and finally tedious. A similar strain shows in what are by now familiar literary musings about the ancient stones and mysterious fossils around Lyme Regis. It is possible that Dorset should be cordoned off to novelists for a decade...