Word: sighings
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...MOOR'S LAST SIGH (Pantheon). Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses exuberantly details the protagonist's absurd fall from the grace of a wealthy Indian childhood into the hands of a madman who plans to kill him once the story ends--an interesting motif for this particular author. But the hero survives, and Rushdie's bountiful comic narrative triumphs...
...jingle bell necklace during these next few weeks, at least commend me for my effort. But if you see me still wearing my Christmas sweater in January, you can gently remind me that Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and I better get a head start. Sigh...
...group of crazed teenagers while we looked at our feet. Later, while rescuing the poor engineer, we would learn that teenagers have no regard for justice, other people's feelings or the right way of greeting strangers. Beaming back to the ship in a hurry, we would sigh and thank the lucky stars that our world was not ruled by adolescents...
...jaunty O.J. Simpson tacked through the usual media flotilla waiting outside the pastel-colored government building last Tuesday. He brightened when a young Hispanic man asked for his autograph. But once inside, away from the cameras, Simpson lowered his head and heaved a deep sigh. For this wasn't the Santa Monica courthouse where he's been spending most of the past two months defending himself in the wrongful-death civil suit brought by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. This was the start of yet another trial, in an Orange County courthouse 40 miles away, where...
...have I become so fearful? Why do I sigh with relief as I enter the gates to my house? Where has "Woman, here me roar" gone? Perhaps it's the onslaught of muggings, attacks and rapes that have occurred in the last year. Xeroxed news articles are posted on the house bulletin boards with "WOMEN BE CAREFUL" written across the top of the pages. It is hard not to feel tentative as one marches homeward...