Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee was scouring the DOE?s shoddy security record and screaming for Asian heads. Not a good time for a Taiwan-born scientist to have broken so serious a rule. But Bob Vrooman?s heart isn?t bleeding, says Shannon ?- this outburst is more about covering Vrooman?s rear than saving Lee?s. "He was head of counterintelligence at a time when security at DOE was very sloppily run, and for him to say there were no significant problems is self-serving," she says. "Does Bill Richardson believe that Lee spied? Yes. Is he scapegoating some officials because there...
...songs (all of which she wrote or co-wrote) never leave it there; they explore the conversation a smart soul has with herself when she's just said "fine" to her no-longer lover. And Richey's lyrics fill the tense, unspoken spaces with hard truths, wry rear views and a desperate lucidity...
...engine and the wind would have made it difficult for the occupants to talk to one another, but the plane was equipped with headphones that would have made conversation easy. The position of the bodies at the crash site suggests that Carolyn and Lauren were sitting in the rear of the six-seat cabin, behind Kennedy. Overhead lights controlled by armrest switches would have allowed them to pass the time reading; a fold-down writing table gave them a place to rest a book...
...voice of a friend whose air conditioning had broken down and who, at John's invitation, was staying in his Tribeca apartment. Yes, John had left. No, he had not been heard from. The Senator reached Hyannis Port the next day and began the vigil. On Sunday, Coast Guard Rear Admiral Richard Larrabee switched to a search-and-recovery effort. This put an end to the hope that anyone would be found alive. Ted issued a statement of the family's "unspeakable grief," lowered the flag to half-staff and then went to the side of the person he knew...
...addictions that he was supposed to perform in New York City this spring. He insists it will be as disturbing as his past live performances, which, in the spirit of his hero Andy Kaufman, manage to clear about half the audience by the time he reaches the mooning, rear-end shaving, fake vomiting or simulated anal rape. "The people who leave, I don't want to please," he says. "I want to please people who are like me." He says his lack of personal boundaries allows him to wake people up, though he feels his tabloid fame has damaged this...