Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST PRESIDENT TO GROW UP in the Age of Television, it was a gathering to relish. Thirty top TV executives--honchos from ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as major cable networks and Hollywood studios--stopped by the White House last Thursday for a meeting. To be sure, it was a command performance (Bill Clinton had proposed the summit in his State-of-the-Union address), and the subject matter was not one the invitees would have picked: sex and violence. But at least everyone was talking the same language. When Viacom's Jonathan Dolgen warned that putting ratings...
After an exceedingly difficult season-opening schedule, the Crimson will relish this chance to play with relative relaxation...
...from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
...Evil: "Americans once believed in God and in Satan; they were known to be obsessed with sin, and they pictured their own history as an epic struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repertoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil nonetheless seems week and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes indifferent...
...that I don't relish frostbite. It's quite stimulating and keeps me from falling asleep on top of my Ec. 10 textbook. And since most of the appliances in my room are now super-conducting, I imagine I'm using less electricity. But it's just so damn hard to get out of that nice, warm bed in the morning...