Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relieve his Star Wars frustrations on the stage. He has been playing the part of Mozart in Amadeus for 5½ months, first on tour and now on Broadway. Like all the other actors, Hamill is devoted to Lucas, but he admits that "these movies didn't give me much pride in my craft. I had to act onstage to get that. Special-effects movies are hard on actors. You find yourself giving an impassioned speech to a big lobster in a flight suit. Only later do you see how silly it looks...
...time frequently celebrated in nostalgic memory. It has been said that life was less complicated then and that the Depression bound families to a common cause. Perhaps, but in Berger's small neighboring towns of Millville and Hornbeck, such pretty thoughts do not have a prayer against ornery pride, low animal cunning and the mayhem loosed by the crazed and the lovestruck...
...building if you were the custodian who had to clean it up every nighttime. For years Rev had been one of the janitors at the county courthouse up in Way land. He had been let go after the accident, which had incapacitated him for some months ... For reasons of pride, and to justify his carrying the pistol, Rev let the family think him a railroad dick. He did live in Hamburg, in a fleabag hotel near the railroad yard, but whenever he wasn't down in Millville at, formerly, his cousin's store and now the Bullard house...
...grinding exasperation of the aged turned to stone by their fear of the stone that will lie on them, no I would find Nefertiri and I would fuck Her. The thought of my cock in Her, my agony in Her honey, my fatigue in Her wealth, my pride in Her royal privacy, my beating heart in Her sweet quiver, my peasant meet in the sauce of a Queen, my sword in Usermare's [the Pharsolt's] skin!--every high and low passion I ever felt came together, and my life was simple. I would fuck...
...person of Walesa, his 'hard situation in Poland,' and this speech to the poor knowledge-hungry professors and doctors of Harvard. In its own way it's interesting what this learned group of scholars would like to learn from Walesa, who in an interview with Oriana Fallaci said with pride 'he had never read any book...