Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Introspection, contemplation--of what, exactly? That may be beside the point; the common refrain here is the chance to reflect simply on this raucous, wildly overpromoted night. When Minneapolis, Minn., public relations executive David Feider thinks about this New Year's Eve, for instance, he fantasizes about absconding to a hideaway along Lake Superior to "stare at the moon, as far away from the rabble as possible"--to escape not Y2K-prompted food riots or the Four Horsemen but rather the omnipresent buzz over the event. "I can't really identify with it anymore," he says. "People are getting...
...accept any federal funding or allow his students to accept federal loans, in order to avoid Washington's guidelines on affirmative action and equal outlays for women's sports. But students can't bear to go near the kiosk anymore, not since it became a gathering point for the reporters who have gone to Hillsdale to find out if Roche, campus patriarch, truculent moralist, really did carry on a 19-year affair with the wife...
This is the point at which greatness enters Moore's performance. Sarah will die--of tuberculosis--in this state of uncertainty, but with both her husband and her former lover attending her deathbed--touched, perhaps, by some dim, unspoken understanding of Sarah's acceptance that grace has befallen her. The final irony is that it is the worldly Maurice who will be given the last piece of the puzzle, near-irrefutable evidence of her saintliness...
...shows their parents regularly watch, whether it's 60 Minutes, The Antiques Road Show or Gilligan's Island. They may tell you they're lame, but who knows? Your kid might be impressed that you know all the original plots to the shows on Nick at Nite. The point is, you--not the television--get to be the parent...
...Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting cum Buffettfest that he won't buy tech stocks because he doesn't know how to value them, and Lynch glibly confessed to thousands more at a fund-industry conference that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer. Lynch's point, as ever a good one, was that you shouldn't own what you don't understand--most things tech, in his case...