Word: rues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least six biographies have modified but not dispelled the mystique that trailed like a haze of cigarette smoke across her life. It began with the much told tale of her birth in the street in a rough- and-tumble section of Paris. A plaque at No. 72 Rue de Belleville, unveiled in 1966 by Maurice Chevalier, marks the spot, but a new biography reveals she was born in a hospital. All true, however, are the impoverished and cruel childhood, the early time spent as a prostitute and the death before age 2 of her only child -- a daughter she bore...
...story is finally May's triumph, Ellen's rue, Newland's muted ruin. For him it is a tragedy, because he has been made aware of joys anticipated, delayed, crushed. Frequently he rewrites the tryst in his mind: one moment when Ellen might have caressed him, another when she could have turned around, smiled and changed his life...
...movie. She hears him on a radio shrink's call-in program, into which he's been plugged by his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger), who thinks it's time for Dad to get a life. Lots of other women respond to him too. Rue is a good emotional color for him, and he wears it well -- with a manliness that avoids self-pity and promises loyalty to anyone who wins his heart. But of all the letters listeners send in, it's Annie's that his son likes best, and so the boy begins to maneuver...
...that the cold war is over, one can sometimes hear diplomats gently rue its passing: communism was terrible, but at least you knew where you stood. Yitzhak Rabin's first days as Israel's Prime Minister have put Arabs and Palestinians in a similar bind. He has yanked open the door to serious negotiations against which they had been pushing, only to find them in a tangled heap on the floor, their muscles stiff and unprepared for a vigorous pas de deux...
...whether black or white. The court voted 7 to 2 to ban these so-called peremptory challenges on racial grounds. Citing a 1991 precedent, Thomas voted with the majority. But in an opinion that read more like a dissent, he wrote: "I am certain that black criminal defendants will rue the day that this court ventured down this road that inexorably will lead to the elimination of peremptory strikes . . . Today's decision, while protecting jurors, leaves defendants with less means of protecting themselves...