Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not to recommend that we should rush out to share the traumas of our childhood with the individual sleeping next to us in Ec 10. A culture of over-sensitive narcissists is almost as unfortunate as the present protocol of coldness, distance and barrier-building. Yet how can we expect to get someone in bed with us if we can barely tackle conversation that revolves around subjects other than our job searches or how overworked...
...measure of strength, not as a foible. In a culture that is rife with images of sex in advertisement, song, art and sport, it is difficult for male virgins to view their virginity as anything but a negative. But they must view virginity as positive, else they will rush into the sexual act because of pressure, not because of love, curiosity, or genuine interest...
...flaws are few and far between. The players' diction, while hardly in classical Shakespearean style, is usually fresh and easily comprehensible, although some actors do occasionally garble lines by speaking too quickly. If the actors feel pressured to rush through their lines, the play might have benefited from further cutting...
Clinton didn't invent the White House sleepover. Among the 273 visitors who brought their pajamas during the Bush Administration, a few were G.O.P. donors. Others were supporters such as Rush Limbaugh, a man so crucial that when he arrived in June 1992, Bush even carried his bags. But like Henry Ford, Clinton took an existing idea and perfected its mass production. In the Clinton White House, 938 guests trooped through. They included the famous, like Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and Billy Graham, and the relatively obscure, including numerous personal friends of the Clintons and Chelsea. But at least...
...genius. An artist who's introduced to alcohol when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...