Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think this is a crackdown," Zhao told NBC's Tom Brokaw in a rare interview. It was taped last week and broadcast in the United States on yesterday morning's program, "Meet the Press...
...Mere name-calling is not actionable as a matter of law," argued the defense attorneys. Indeed, the judge suggested, it can be refreshing. "Creativity in the art of abusive epithet has all but disappeared," he stated. "It is all too rare today to hear the clear, clean ring of a really original insult...
...their rare nights out in public, Cosby treats his wife with the adoration of a nerdy schoolboy who cannot believe he landed the prom queen. He admits, however, that their life together was not always the stuff of warm situation comedy. About eight years ago, he says, "if somebody had made me choose between my career and my family, I probably would have let the family...
...such a book is already converted: the evil of owning men, women and children as chattel is shamefully obvious to everyone, and the heroes and villains are easy to tell apart. But it is precisely the contemporary consensus on human bondage that makes serious fiction on this subject so rare and so difficult to achieve. Imaginative literature at its best does not reinforce received opinions but disturbs them, puts them to the test of experience relived. And what is obvious to readers now -- that slavery was a moral abomination -- did not appear as unchallenged truth to everyone embroiled...
...Ohio River, which stands between her and liberation: "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...