Word: sodden
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...their own enjoyment. But spending millions on an inflated comic by Roy Lichtenstein or outbidding a rival heavy hitter at an auction isn't public patronage. Such patronage suggests some intent of public edification, and in the U.S. - thanks to its barbarously ignorant politicians and its media-sodden public - that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even...
...omnipresent eye of FM—the girls glance nervously at one another. FM selflessly volunteers to sample the goods, thereby putting the newbies at ease. A daiquiri or five later, the first-years are embroiled in a hot debate over final clubs and Anna Kournikova, while the rum-sodden reporters have regressed to playing X-rated Hangman in their notebooks...
...Stones by Flavia Bujor, 14. Cynics say their presence in the rentrée littéraire typefies the popular appeal of youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year-old Lolita Pille. Her novel, Hell - a self-obsessed, semi-autobiographical gaze into the drug-sodden and libertine demimonde of rich Parisian adolescents - has been on the bestseller lists since May. Despite a literary merit Assouline puts at "zero," Hell sells, he says, "because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will...
...faction that didn't want Karzai in the first place. By going after the killers, the country's interim leader is headed for a showdown with the powerful warlords who control Afghanistan's foreign affairs, military and security forces--and even his own palace guards. His green-striped cape sodden with rain during the funeral ceremony, Karzai never looked so alone...
...faction that didn't want Karzai in the first place. By going after the killers, the country's interim leader is headed for a showdown with the powerful warlords who control Afghanistan's foreign affairs, military and security forces?and even his own palace guards. His green-striped cape sodden with rain during the funeral ceremony, Karzai never looked so alone...