Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father, an artist, and his mother, a stage actress, both teach in a private school. They made every attempt to provide Linzee with singular educational opportunities...
...indications are that Britain's heir-but-one is developing the emotional arsenal to survive his singular fate. He seems to have inherited his mother's relaxed manner and something of the paradoxical shy self-confidence that so rivets her public. He may also be the most media-savvy person in his family. When Diana was offered the presidency of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the avid gamesman advised her, "You can't do that--every time I kill something, they'll blame you." It looks as if he may make it after...
Think back. The singular achievement of the '94 Gingrich revolution was that it swept into power united behind one comprehensive ideological goal: dismantling the welfare state. Just about everything in the Contract with America and the legislative agenda of the 104th Congress is a mere subheading: welfare reform, tax cuts, entitlement reform, returning power to the states, the balanced budget (a supremely powerful means for keeping the growth of government in check...
...attended Mass each day, prayed every night and made the sign of the Cross before basketball free throws. He studied hard and played hard and probably got into at least one fistfight a week. "I loved those years," Buchanan wrote in his 1988 autobiography. "Nothing since has matched the singular sweetness of their memory...
During an interview at the midtown apartment that serves as his Manhattan pied-a-terre, Diller is restless even in repose. His is a singular physical presence, his fine-boned body at odds with his rock of a head and a gap-toothed grin that is both wary and omnivorous (actually, he looks a lot like David Letterman minus the hair). As Diller talks, he twists himself into ligament-straining positions on the couch. He fidgets with his socks, gets up again and again to fiddle with the thermostat--it's as if he can't help exuding nervous energy...