Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place, its end, with four still lifes by Francisco de Goya. Because Goya was supremely a painter of the human clay in all its aspects, we don't associate him with still life. But his powers of empathy were so vast that he could endow almost anything with a shiver of mortality and the cold touch of otherness; and so it is with these paintings...
...delectable pink skimmer. a sinuous little suit. A shiver of cocktail chiffon. An international parade of pretty clothes...
...Long Black Veil is a lovely introduction to this musical Irish institution, with a cogent, eclectic choice of material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save...
...with the 1996 presidential race. Perot makes Republican candidates cringe when he threatens to "do whatever I have to do to get our goals accomplished in the most intelligent way." They fear a repeat of the damage Perot inflicted on George Bush in 1992. And Bill Clinton's advisers shiver when they hear Jackson musing that "a lot of people are interested in more ballot access as the Democrats and Republicans become indistinguishable." The Clintonites worry about an independent Jackson candidacy that could destroy the President's already fragile prospects for re-election...
...shiver in the depressing Boston cold. Trudging through the snow, icy wind lacerating my face, I curse my logistical misfortune...