Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of chemistry than of medicine and law and politics. The pattern now, it appears, is boy meets girl (or sometimes boy), quizzes on sexual history, comes clean with an update on his own antisocial diseases and puts it all down in writing, for the lawyers. Precoital tristesse, in short. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? O.K. But remember that in 1989, summer days are apt to be murky with smog, uncomfortably hot thanks to the greenhouse effect and filled with lo-cal sequels...
...even though the heart may not have changed, the pressures and restrictions brought to bear on it have surely done so. The whole thrust of Shakespeare's play, after all, is that "lovers and madmen have such seething brains," that lovers, in short, are too full of folly, too much aflame, too rich in their imaginations. Nowadays, often, our problem seems just the opposite. Prudence makes us measure out our hearts with coffee spoons, and discretion is the better part of Valium. Love has always been a messy affair, and that is precisely why it cannot be easily legislated. Make...
...perception in Mexico is that the U.S. thinks about Mexico for short periods of time and then forgets it. But doesn't that work both ways...
...intimidate and embarrass you in court." Following the 1985 crash in Dallas, Delta was criticized for prying into the lives of passengers during litigation. After investigators found that one victim was homosexual, insurance lawyers raised the issue of whether his life expectancy would have been cut short because of AIDS...
...Israel was short-sided in believing that their hostages were the only ones who could die. Israel was bound to be the victim whether the Obeid trade-off succeeded or failed. Instead of saying, "look, those Arabs can not be trusted," many Americans are asking, "how could Israel not have known...