Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that finals are over and I've nearly regained my sanity, I can look back on that moment of near-arson and shudder to think about what I almost did. Setting any piece of Harvard property on fire would probably cost more in legal fees than the entire Kennedy clan could afford, and that's nothing compared to what would happen if a nearby building also became inflamed. Besides the money issue, however, I'll play Girl Scout leader for a moment--setting things that aren't yours on fire is wrong, and shouldn't be done...
...many of those funny interconnections have been cut. Financial institutions have used the time to weed their portfolios and especially to reduce their exposure to high-risk regions and sectors. That helped international markets shake off Brazil's latest shudder. The downside is that emerging economies are largely off the horizon of foreign portfolio managers, who feel safer on Wall Street no matter how giddy its prices. As Naim notes, Amazon.com now has a market capitalization that exceeds the entire stock market of Argentina...
...well be that Fosse's dark sensibility will prove even better suited to the '90s than it was to the '70s. How else to explain why theatergoers are cheering a plotless show without a single love song, an evening-long shudder of disillusion in which the women are hookers, the men pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil...
Once back on the job, Hillary found that her every shudder invited scrutiny. There was the way she ignored the President's touch at a speech in Moscow, and the way she charged half a block ahead of him while working a crowd in Ireland. She spent their 23rd anniversary at a women's conference in Bulgaria; he spent it in budget talks at the White House. But the First Couple danced together three times at a state dinner for Vaclav Havel. "Hillary and I, we're doing fine," her husband said...
...believe, in fact, that most women would prefer a man to be glumly uncommunicative than to spill his guts at the drop of a hat. That (one recalls with a shudder) was the goal of the so-called men's movement of Robert Bly et al. in the 1980s and early '90s, which exhorted men to express their feelings. If anyone doubts the perils of men expressing feelings, he should watch The McLaughlin Group or Cable Monica...