Word: seems
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After generations of how-to books, the Dummies and Idiot's books seem to have caught on, thanks in part to the decade's obsession with faux connoisseurship--the need to know enough about Tuscan cooking or single-malt Scotch to not be an embarrassment at parties. But the blunt titles, with a wink at the reader, are a comforting reassurance that no one who picks up these books need apologize for having to start from scratch. "Would we have been able to laugh at ourselves enough to pick a book with the word idiot in the title...
...gift as an orator and dramatist had won her considerable popularity at both church and school, and she often recited moving depictions of slave life. She began using the iron-willed protagonists she found in black literature to fire her dreams of rising beyond the back-breaking work that seemed the destiny of most of the black people she knew. "I remember Grandma trying to teach me how to wash clothes and lay them across the line with clothespins, making lye soap, killing the hogs, wringing the chickens' necks, and she'd say, 'Watch me, 'cause you're going...
...would have believed it? After what seems like an eternity of tantalizing hype about "high-definition" television, the first digital sets are actually on their way from Sony, RCA, Panasonic and about 10 other manufacturers to showroom floors--and the first digital broadcasts will begin in a little over a month. This much anticipated debut would seem to be terrific news for tube lovers. As promised, the sets deliver supersharp digital pictures, wide-format movie-style screens and magnificent stereo surround sound. And thanks to the content-neutral nature of digital signals--"Bits are bits," they like...
Since both reason and justice seem out of our reach, let us at least have poetic justice. Will the 13 most guilty parties--true representatives of America's twisted culture--please rise? President Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp and the nine robed Justices of the Supreme Court, you are hereby sentenced to confinement, together, for one year in a single room of the old Custom House in Salem, Mass., where, completely disrobed, you shall read and discuss these four works: The Scarlet Letter, Notes from the Underground, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation...
Lately, I've felt some trepidation about our being The American People. The Sabbath Gasbags seem increasingly angry with The American People for not sharing their level of outrage. I can imagine being in a crowded Washington elevator and encountering one of the Gasbags, who, recognizing me as The American People, grabs my lapels and shouts, "The unmitigated gall--ignoring what we tell you to believe...