Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neal already had hypothetical answers to some of his own questions, however. He was primarily shooting the group in search of proof...
...past five months, I've been trying desperately to sell out. Unfortunately, there haven't been any buyers. Yes, in my search for a summer job, I have attempted to auction my spirit, prostitute my body and barter my soul. But, if my luck doesn't change soon, I may have to spend the summer volunteering, and I have no interest in helping others...
This unending "search for truth" has been conducted under the assumption that the exposure of private lives is always a purely destructive, if entertaining, exercise. But a small, recent incident proved otherwise. It happened around the time of the "Was he aroused?" TV interview of Kathleen Willey, and was so fleeting (and tasteful) one could easily have missed...
...store where I had been so energetically served the day before. The same salesman greets me as I enter, but remains at his seat behind the counter, flipping through a comic book. I wandered around the nearly empty store, passing the counter a number of times as though in search of a certain item. Still, no one approached me to ask if I needed help. Finally, when I neared another salesman, he politely asked if he could help me. The respect in his voice contrasted with the easy, presumptuously friendly tone of yesterday's salesman. I decline his help...
Countless Harvard students have passed by his marker on Mass. Avenue. They pause before the face etched in brass, and the stern visage beneath the hard-hat peers back. His eyes search off into the distance, grimy and determined. Where is he looking? What is he feeling? And, for the love of Pete, just who is this John "Muggsie" Kelly that he rates his own monument on prime Harvard Square property, earning a momentary glance (if not a full-fledged stare) from thousands of pedestrians daily...