Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's a shame. How's your jungle call...
...should be proud of President Clinton and his many accomplishments in trying to keep the world at peace. He has supervised the best economy in decades and tried to reduce crime, cut welfare rolls, curb unemployment and improve education. Shame on those who have made his time in office unbearable! MARGOT HOYLEN Deming...
...headed woman, oddly-shaped flowers, a man with talons--create a visual world that vacillates between dream and nightmare. The dream that Walker unfolds here is not just any dream, but the dream of the collective American psyche, filled with all the pain, desire, cruelty, love, hate and shame of American history...
...possibly get by with any less than six hours of sleep every night. Tales of students with the ability to pull one or even two all-nighters in a row continue to amaze me. Yet Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep puts even these feats of slumber to shame; insomnia, somnambulism and narcolepsy are among the much more serious disorders with which his characters are attempting to come to terms. Coe tells a well-constructed story in which the themes of unrequited love, sexual identity, the ups and downs of the film industry and psychotherapy are intricately woven...
...through my mind when as I wrestled with the impulse to physically hurt her: it was the shock that all the people who were crowded into that city pool heard this young, white girl call me a nigger. It was a feeling I can only liken to shame. In as much as I can't control the legacy of the white supremacy that girl's skin color allowed her to claim, I couldn't control my initial reaction to her slur. As Toni Morrison writes in Beloved, "The definitions belong to the definers and not the defined...