Word: sackful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kevin Sack, rolling on the river, finds a revel-in-the-details Gore who "finished his four-day riverboat tour of the Mississippi River with a floating seminar on tax policy." Rather than simply riding the tides of postconvention momentum, he has held a nautical forum on health insurance and given speeches on dry land about the environment and managed care..." And it seems to be going over...
...veep's veep day Tuesday, and press needles are lurching toward G. The NYT holds a dignified pep rally: Bill Daley, suddenly, "in his short time here... seems to have significantly revived the once flagging morale of the Democratic campaign, both in Nashville and beyond." Gimme an A, Kevin Sack. WP leads section with another in "The Life of Al Gore" series - a Nakashima/Maraniss tale of Gore's near-obsessive responsiveness to his Tennessee constituents...
...strong was the appetite for historical works in which stern Antiquity framed the goddess Pornography. By far the hottest example of the genre here is a fabulous piece of kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This is archaeology with...
...would be divided into small groups (so they wouldn't only talk to each other), and sent to work in places where summa is a prepositional phrase ("the summa two and four is six") and the people are still happy and normal. The students could tutor, babysit, paint houses, sack groceries or wait tables; whatever needs doing and isn't getting done. The Harvard Corp's tasks might not be exactly like the Peace Corps. For instance, a village well dug by VES concentrators might periodically shoot out flame and speak in the voice of John Lennon, making village life...
...handed over the boy, wrapped in a blanket, dressed in a blue-yellow-and-pink beanie. But there was no gentleness in the passing; it was as if the child were a sack of potatoes. The supervisor stared into her eyes, hoping to glimpse regret or agony. All she saw was relief. When Little asked if the baby had any medical condition that nurses might need to know about, the young mother cut her off. She turned around and walked out without saying a word, without looking back. In Little's arms, the baby cooed. "You try standing...