Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer the map to use it for inter-period ooting...
...idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equinamity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities--personal relations--is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems. Even for especially) romantic love is fundamentally solitary, and has as core a profound impersonality. The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic--we cannot knew each other... A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form. 'Only connect...
...those who think they can hold onto Yamit, all I can say is that peace is more precious than anything in the world, and in order for there to be peace, we must honor our commitments...
Citing a number of ancient Hindu myths that still play an important role in Indian consciousness today, O'Flaherty demonstrated how myths often limit our thinking patterns. In India, where liquid is precious, women in myth are seen as draining fluids out of men. Similarly, their own body fluids, such as milk, are frequently poisonous in stories. Women are seen as sexually dangerous, hence "evil...
...show; they will come at odd times, and playwrights will no longer be required to provide a climax every 15 minutes. In the first week, that benign rule was violated frequently. Almost all the commercials were awkwardly placed, and little effort seemed to be made to preserve precious continuity. So far, only three advertisers-Kraft, Exxon and Kellogg-have committed themselves beyond the first week, and most of the commercials are tasteful house ads, promoting upcoming shows. Eventually, however, CBS expects that more advertisers will be attracted by its ritzy audience. Revenues will never match those of the big, over...