Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Driving is a curious combination of public and private acts. A car isolates a driver from the world even as it carries him through it. The sensation of personal power is intoxicating. Sealed in your little pod, you control the climate with the touch of a button, from Arctic tundra...
The first thing you notice when your plane suddenly begins to drop is that you're becoming weightless. For those who like roller coasters, the sensation may not be too bad. Quickly, however, zero-G can become negative-G, meaning anything not fastened or seat-belted down will slam into...
But Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely...
The printed program attempts to defuse any violent reaction to the composer's contemporary style: "The piece is accessible to anyone who will open his or her ears and listen carefully to it, giving it as much attention as a film with a complex plot." This was correct in one...
Then there's Charles Spalding, a longtime friend of Kennedy's who told Hersh that J.F.K.'s long-rumored first marriage to Palm Beach socialite Durie Malcolm was a fact. Though stories surfaced in the press in 1961, reporters could find no record of the marriage then. The Kennedy camp...