Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limousine the other day with a Republican Senator and drawled, "I want to help the President." Translation: there is a majority forming in Congress, and perhaps the nation, that believes that Ronald Reagan must begin to cut his losses and start to make some deals. And there is the rub...
...raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were to rub shoulders together...
Everywhere, Warner casts her spell, literally. Her mother's ritual for boiling an egg becomes just that. In a piece on folk recipes-a pint of warm beer stirred with a hot poker will cure backache, a slab of raw beef will rub away a wart-the reporter edges deliciously close to magic herself. Even the inventory of the purple velvet handbag of Mme. Houdin, ten-year-old Sylvia's French tutor, becomes a litany of talismans to ward off disaster: smelling salts, two thimbles, a photograph of M. Houdin, the number of madame's life-insurance...
...critically. He has upended myths of the Old West (The Left-Handed Gun, Little Big Man) and found desperate excitement on the fringes of 20th century Americana (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant). As collaborators, these two artists might produce high-arcing dramatic sparks, or maybe just rub each other the wrong way. In Four Friends, a picaresque panorama of life in the turbulent 1960s, they seem to have done a little of both. The film is ambitious, messy, moving, silly, impossible to accept on its own lofty terms, almost as difficult to dismiss...
...cause gale warnings throughout the British Isles. Woodhouse, however, is not a slobbery, slurpy sort of lady, as anyone who has watched her TV show can testify: her highest form of praise is a little tickle on the chest. Not a big tickle, mind you, and rarely a rub or a pat. Just a very little tickle, administered by the middle finger of the right hand. "We're never boisterous about praising," she says, "or the dogs get silly...