Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategists that her chances are about even in a race that would be largely fought upstate and on Long Island. Says an intimate: "The upsides are taking the balance right now." Meanwhile, Hillary's other post-White House options -- running a university or a think tank, sitting on boards -- seem stodgy by comparison. From all this comes one loud signal, intended not least for her own husband: "She's not interested in making money," says another friend. "That...
Critics and movie buffs are arguably more discerning, although they seem currently to regard movies which are self-aware of their own unoriginality as creative wonders (Scream, for example). The less afraid a movie is to flaunt its derivative nature, the more successful...
...felt a strange combination of amusement and trepidation. As a city boy who hasn't (yet) learned to drive, I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I get carded at a bar: I have to flash the bouncer my only legitimate form of I.D., my passport, which makes me seem like either a total wanker or the youngest member of the visiting U.N. delegation. But petty embarrassments aside, I wasn't sure how well I would relate to my 1,600 peers, many of whom I hadn't so much as laid eyes on since convocation our first year...
...where would you find such a common room today? I think the pennants went into storage after first semester of sophomore year, and I have yet to see a senior suite that willfully betrays its occupants' class-year. These days, a Harvard 1999 pennant on the wall would seem as repellent as Serbian ultra-nationalism...
...hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death, the subject of the conference was how Hemingway has held up--not just his works, but necessarily the man himself. What is so striking about the Hemingway photograph I have discussed is not only that the subject seems so consummately the perfect masculine celebrity, but also the eventual realization that the photograph seems almost completely unnecessary. The picture of Hemingway the man, down to the vague disapproval in the lips that seems to mask some deep sadness, springs fully formed from the pages of his fiction. Does...