Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, though, life is quieter. John has just renovated his home in Old Windsor. He gutted the building, filled the rooms with antiques, decked the walls with illustrations of naval battles, stocked the shelves with Meissen and Staffordshire. A gracious home for the Country Squire...
...feminism's stern dictates. The longest new essay, ``No Law in the Arena,'' is a panorama of hot-button topics: rape, harassment, pornography, abortion. What makes Paglia infuriating and invaluable is her willingness to find, in these victimological issues, shades of male anxiety and female responsibility. There are also quieter pieces, notably a loving memoir of four homosexual friends who helped shape her sensibility. But it's silly to ask this brainy pipshriek to calm down; shouting is her form of conversation...
...think the Square is dictated by the economy; there is too much fast food, fast clothing, [and] I would like it to be a little...quieter," Duehay says. "There are too many new, trendy stores and it is hard for people in Cambridge to find shops and restaurants that appeal to them...
...convert to the concept. "I have time to study here because there's no noise and there's no one throwing up in the hallway at all hours of the night," she says. "It's just like any other dorm with the exception that it's cleaner and quieter." Sounds like something that could catch...
...recording of the shots that killed him became evidence at the murder trial) and of the subsequent "people power" rallies that swept his widow Cory to power. Burton had not been in China long when a similar street demonstration occurred -- with tragically different results -- at Tiananmen Square. But in quieter moments, Beijing's blanket of smog awakened in Burton a fascination with the contradictory imperatives of China's huge energy needs and its desire to meet them "without rendering its cities unfit for life...