Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though he dines at the Palm and wears London-tailored Tasmanian-wool suits (at $1,500 a pop, each is paid for with about three hours of his billed legal time), Cacheris' homelife has always been more prosaic. He and his wife Ethel--they have been married nearly 43 years--frequently revisit his roots on trips to Greece. His father Christos had only a sixth-grade education, and as a teenager Plato flipped burgers at his dad's restaurants. After a stint in the Marines, straight-arrow Cacheris worked as a Justice Department prosecutor helping Attorney General Robert Kennedy target...
...that anyone in the White House knew Chung was funneling money from Chinese sources or that Chung ever lobbied anyone about the transfer of satellite-launch technology. Chung's lawyer, Brian Sun, insists Liu never discussed satellites or waivers with Chung. At least part of their partnership concerned the prosaic business of trading auto parts and telephone equipment...
...into in the '50s," he says. "There were so many challenges left unrealized because of the Depression and World War II--there was a lot left to dream about." The promise of the future then was one of hope, of a technological utopia. But the sometimes bad, mostly prosaic way in which many of those dreams eventually came true (space-travel perception: vacation on the moon; space-travel reality: a bunch of Russians stuck for months in a ratty old orbiter) may have dulled people's appetites for looking further forward. We like our microwave ovens, and cell phones...
...quite separate. Music is good at conveying ambiguous emotional states, at least for me. Some people have written great protest songs, but what I like to do is sort of let the music be ambiguous and have liner notes and interviews that are much more straightforward and prosaic...
...another Valentine's Day has passed. Thank God and good riddance, you might moan. Even if those libidinous 24 hours dedicated to Eros didn't turn your stomach, chances are that you've had your fill of chalky candy hearts and prosaic declarations of amour a la Hallmark by now. The roses are wilting to papery brown. The only chocolates left in your Whitman Sampler are those revolting ones oozing phosphorescent cream fillings...