Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Priterpelost is capitulation before "infinite humiliations." First we humiliate ourselves to get an apartment. We humiliate ourselves hunting in the jungles of commerce for wallpaper, faucets, toilet bowls, latches. The sight of a Yugoslav lamp fixture or a Rumanian sofa bed brings fireworks to our eyes. When a child is...
Only the most expendable men are boxers. All of the fighters who ever died -- nearly 500 since 1918, when the Ring book started to keep tabs -- haven't the political constituency of a solitary suburban child who falls off a trampoline. Observers who draw near enough to fights and fighters...
SOMETHING must be done to ensure that the victims of violent racial crimes--both white and Black--are able to seek justice in our system. Sharpton, Mason and Maddox--when they are not busy rambling on about Cuomo's ties to the mob--have called for the creation of a...
She does find something for her candied prose to cloy on. "He stirred in me all the emotions present in an intimate relationship," pants Huffington, who never met Picasso. "I was seduced by his magnetism, his intensity, that mysterious quality of inexhaustibility bursting forth from the transfixing stare of his...
Maybe it is the change of season, or something in the social climate, but suddenly everyone seems to be a gardener. Whether it is an elegant floral sanctuary or a swatch of tomatoes or a circle of herbs, our garden provides us with essential staples: good health, creative challenge, rare...