Word: rues
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Pockets Full of Rue...
...boredom, and in this they were perfectly true to the social world they addressed, since most of the life of a girl in a maison close was taken up with sitting around. The tedium of the big-city seraglio becomes monumental, almost Egyptian, with In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins, circa...
...interview with an Arizona station, he was told -- inaccurately -- that Jesse Jackson was about to endorse the failing Harkin. Clinton, unaware that the camera and microphones were on, | delivered a tirade in which he accused Jackson of "backstabbing" him. That outburst got nationwide display, free exposure that Clinton may rue for weeks. As Clinton tried to mollify the Democrats' best-known black leader, Jackson complained about the "blast at my integrity." For Clinton, the possible cost of the incident was loss of black support, on which he counts heavily...
...poignant confession of rue, and Ramsay would appear to be a classic sensitive narrator. But Wilson is up to something more, which gives the book considerable strength. Near the end, Ramsay betrays his best friend to, of all people, Raphael Hunter, with serious consequences. No one in the large cast escapes the author's stern moral gaze. Ramsay is last seen scheming, probably bootlessly, to pursue the latest young woman to fall in love with Albion Pugh...
...book, Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, Cheever made a list of subjects he considered off limits. Some seemed frivolous: "All parts for Marlon Brando." Others contained a mix of irony and rue. The author would shy away from explicit scenes of sexual commerce: "How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives as if -- jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts -- we were describing the changing of a flat tire?" He would disdain alcoholics: "Out they go, male and female, all the lushes; they throw so little true light...