Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirkland House resident feels shame every time she goes into the bathroom. "You'd think you could be private in your own bathroom, but you know they're listening to everything you're doing," Kate, a sophomore, said. "When you can't even throw up in peace and quiet in your own bathroom, you know there's something wrong. You think I could go and take a shower with someone in there? No way--they'd hear everything." Ay, the troubles we do face...
...adversely affected by it. Actually, even while society has come to see smokers more and more as lepers, Leavitt and Pierce has been doing quite well. Unwittingly, MacDonald remarked, "The tobacco industry is still pretty healthy." Immediately realizing the irony of his statement, he added "the peace and quiet I get from smoking up here for a hour a day easily compensates for any negative effects caused by smoking...
Colleagues said McCarthy was quiet and easygoing. He was laid to rest in a sweater, and atelephone test handset he used in his work wasburied with...
Even today the interests of this new wave of stars seem to extend beyond the Hollywood club scene. Hawke and Sarah Jessica Parker live quiet lives in Manhattan, where they are involved in theater and claim not to socialize much with other actors. Two years ago, Hawke started his own theater company, where he presides as artistic director. Ryder collects rare books and owns an edition of James Joyce's Ulysses that features original drawings by Matisse. She is also a fan of the obscure, critically lauded Italian-American novelist John Fante...
...garden and stayed there for 15 years, until her death in 1989. If he did not always feel generous ("One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation"), he always acted generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just got used to it. I know this sounds odiously modest, but I don't think it needed much goodness. It's more laziness...